Monkeypox: A Brief Look into a ‘Novel’ Virus
Since March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has marked our history. With over 600 million cases and 5 million deaths, the frequent lockdowns, testing procedures, and restrictions have devastated the [...]
Routine DNA Screening Moves Into Primary Care
DNA isolated from a small sample of saliva or blood can yield information, fairly inexpensively, about a person’s relative risk of developing dozens of diseases or medical conditions. If [...]
Fewer Breast Cancer Patients Benefit From Chemo, TAILORx Study With Oncotype DX Finds
CHICAGO (GenomeWeb) – Results presented over the weekend at the American Society for Clinical Oncology annual meeting have closed the file on a long unanswered question for Genomic Health’s [...]
Patients given a revolutionary cancer treatment that is ‘personalised’ to their own disease are SIX TIMES more likely to survive for 10 years, concludes major study
A revolutionary treatment ‘personalised’ to patients for their own cancer can increase their chances of survival by six times. Treatment tailored to cancer patients has been described [...]
How knowing your genetic code could lengthen your life
Fifteen years ago this month, the full human genome sequence was published for the first time, heralding a new era of medicine. Since then technology has markedly speeded up genomic sequencing [...]