Researchers at the University of California at San Diego have used RNA-targeted CRISPR to reverse symptoms in an animal model of myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1). They reported their findings in the Sept. 14, 2020, issue of Nature Biomedical Engineering.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in cardiology, including: SCAD vs. plaques in heart attacks; Gut microbiome data may be helpful in routine screening of cardiovascular disease; Some health care professionals use outdated guidelines to screen and diagnose hypertension.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in neurology, including: New molecule restores lost connections in the spinal cord, brain of mice; Brain stimulation reduces dyslexia deficits; Nerivio wearable piloted for relief in patients with chronic migraine.
Researchers at the Diabetes Institute of the University of Washington and the University of Copenhagen have implicated the brain in the ability of intracranial injections of fibroblast growth factor 1 (FGF1) to restore blood sugar control to diabetic animals for long periods of time.
LONDON – The international commission convened in the aftermath of Chinese scientist He Jiankui’s shock announcement of the birth of gene edited twins has set a possible course to approval of heritable gene editing, but said the technique is far from ready for use.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in diagnostics, including: Deep learning aid for diagnosing TB in HIV patients; Self-collected swabs vs. health care worker collected for COVID-19 testing; SCAD vs. plaques in heart attacks; Diagnosing neuroblastoma in children.
The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project, a multiyear, multi-institutional attempt to catalog how expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) and splicing quantitative trait loci (sQTL) affect protein levels, reported data from its final phase in 15 papers in the Sept, 10, 2020, online issues of the Science and Cell family of journals, as well as in Genome Biology.
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