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Is monkeypox a global public-health emergency?

A summary of available knowledge on the monkeypox virus including pathogenicity, risk to the human population, and strategies that can help limit its spread.

20 Jul 2022

Study assesses eight de novo genome assembly software tools on viral next-generation sequencing data

A new study compares and assesses eight de novo genome assembly software tools on actual viral next-generation sequencing data.

20 Jul 2022

The clinical, epidemiological, and evolutionary consequences of a potential SARS-CoV-2-related bat virus spillover into humans

A team of scientists from France has recently described the epidemiological and clinical consequences of a bat sarbecovirus infection in humanized mice.

20 Jul 2022

Novel blood test offers unprecedented insight into a patient's cancer make-up

Researchers at the Vancouver Prostate Centre have developed a new blood test that provides unprecedented insight into a patient's cancer make-up, potentially allowing doctors to better select treatment options that will improve patient outcomes.

20 Jul 2022

Scientists provide first report from the largest whole genome sequencing effort to date

Scientists at deCODE genetics a subsidiary of Amgen together with collaborators from Denmark report on the whole genome sequences of 150 thousand participants in the UK biobank in a paper published in the journal Nature today.

20 Jul 2022

Cholera variants need to be monitored closely to prevent outbreaks, scientists urge

Cholera variants are constantly evolving and need to be monitored closely to prevent outbreaks, say researchers.

20 Jul 2022

Adopting a healthy cardiovascular lifestyle may lower stroke risk

Genes and lifestyle factors together play a role in stroke risk. However, even for people at high risk for stroke, adopting a healthy cardiovascular lifestyle may significantly lower the risk of stroke in their lifetime, according to new research published today in the Journal of the American Heart Association, an open access, peer-reviewed journal of the American Heart Association.

20 Jul 2022

Researchers report the detection of viral mutations associated with drug resistance in patients treated with REGEN-COV and sotrovimab

Researchers reported mutations in SARS-CoV-2 Delta and Omicron variants of concern infection cases treated with neutralizing monoclonal antibodies.

20 Jul 2022

Study shows Omicron BA.4/5 infection triggers highly cross-reactive neutralizing antibodies

Researchers compared the levels of cross-reactive neutralizing antibodies elicited by SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.4 and BA.1 infections.

20 Jul 2022

Machine learning models help forecast immunotherapy response from gut microbiomes

A new research paper was published in Oncotarget on July 19, 2022, entitled, "Predicting cancer immunotherapy response from gut microbiomes using machine learning models."

20 Jul 2022

Genes underlying cigarette smoking linked to the perception of pain and response to food

Have you ever wondered why one person can smoke cigarettes for a year and easily quit, while another person will become addicted for life? Why can't some people help themselves from abusing alcohol and others can take it or leave it?

20 Jul 2022

New way to test vaccines may be as rigorous and stringent as exposure to field strains of malaria

Malaria is the deadliest mosquito-borne parasitic infection of humans. In 2021, after a century of research, the World Health Organization (WHO) approved the world's first malaria vaccine.

20 Jul 2022

Study determines the reason behind the failure of IVF embryos

In humans, a fertilized egg is no guarantee of reproductive success. Most embryos stop developing and perish within days of fertilization, usually because they have an abnormal number of chromosomes. Now, researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons have found that most of these mistakes are due to spontaneous errors in DNA replication in the earliest phase of cell division.

20 Jul 2022

Non-coding 'junk' DNA could potentially contribute to the development of cancer

Scientists have found that non-coding 'junk' DNA, far from being harmless and inert, could potentially contribute to the development of cancer.

19 Jul 2022

Molnupiravir does not induce resistance mutations in SARS-CoV-2 genome

A new study has pointed out that Molnupiravir treatment increases the ratio of transition to transversion mutations in COVID-19 patients and that the treatment does not appear to induce resistance mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 genome.

19 Jul 2022

Study shows how a critical Lassa virus protein drives infection

Lassa fever is a viral illness that is far too common in West Africa. Although it can have a mortality rate of 15 percent in severe cases, up to 90% in pregnant women, and causes deafness in a quarter of survivors, there is no vaccine or antiviral to protect against Lassa virus.

19 Jul 2022

Genome News and Research

Is monkeypox a global public-health emergency?

Study assesses eight de novo genome assembly software tools on viral next-generation sequencing data

The clinical, epidemiological, and evolutionary consequences of a potential SARS-CoV-2-related bat virus spillover into humans

Novel blood test offers unprecedented insight into a patient's cancer make-up

Scientists provide first report from the largest whole genome sequencing effort to date

Cholera variants need to be monitored closely to prevent outbreaks, scientists urge

Adopting a healthy cardiovascular lifestyle may lower stroke risk

Researchers report the detection of viral mutations associated with drug resistance in patients treated with REGEN-COV and sotrovimab

Study shows Omicron BA.4/5 infection triggers highly cross-reactive neutralizing antibodies

Machine learning models help forecast immunotherapy response from gut microbiomes

Genes underlying cigarette smoking linked to the perception of pain and response to food

New way to test vaccines may be as rigorous and stringent as exposure to field strains of malaria

Study determines the reason behind the failure of IVF embryos

Non-coding 'junk' DNA could potentially contribute to the development of cancer

Molnupiravir does not induce resistance mutations in SARS-CoV-2 genome

Study shows how a critical Lassa virus protein drives infection

Elephant genes could offer new clues to preventing cancer development

Gonorrhea bacteria may have driven the evolution of gene variants that protect older adults against dementia

Researchers report genomic profiling from more than 110,000 tumors

The known and proposed interactions of SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 with DNA damage response pathways

The art of CRISPR: The power and promise of gene editing eBook

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

Expanding access to NMR with the Fourier 80 Duo

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