20 minutes ago By Michelle Roberts, Digital health editor Eddie’s family Eddie was treated for his cancer at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London Children with cancer are getting better treatment thanks to a genetic test the NHS has been offering, say experts. Whole genome sequencing (WGS) checks the entire DNA code of the tumour to identify … Read more
By Marc Zimmer New London: During her chemistry Nobel Prize lecture in 2018, Frances Arnold said, “Today we can for all practical purposes read, write and edit any sequence of DNA, but we cannot compose it.” That isn’t true anymore. Since then, science and technology have progressed so much that artificial intelligence has learned to … Read more
BBC Only a genetic test will tell Carys if she has inherited the Brca1 gene from her mother, Rachael A 17-year-old has been rejected by the Army, despite passing all the selection tests, because two members of her family have had breast cancer. Carys Holmes has a 50-50 chance of inheriting a gene fault from … Read more
Rather than making sound louder, like a hearing aid, it gives the “sensation” of hearing, by directly stimulating the auditory nerve that communicates with the brain, bypassing the damaged sound-sensing hair cells in a part of the inner ear known as the cochlea. Source link
In the trial, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, angiodema symptoms were reduced by 95% among a small group of patients from the UK, New Zealand, and the Netherlands given a single infusion – targeted at cells in the liver – to reduce the KLKB1 gene’s ability to produce plasma prekallikrein. Source link
The DNA of ancient cattle herders has revealed how diseases evolved in Europe over thousands of years. Source link
Researchers have developed gene-edited chickens that are partially resistant to bird flu. Source link
Gift Nifty index recorded an all-time high single day trading activity of 38.63 lakh contracts with a turnover of USD 15.25 billion (about Rs 1.27 lakh crore) on Tuesday. The index surpassed its previous record of a turnover of USD 12.98 billion touched on August 29, NSE IX said in a statement on Wednesday. Gift … Read more
Islanders on Westray were told of a genetic variant linked to an increased risk of breast cancer. Source link
Lucknow: Making an excellent mark, IIT-Kanpur topped the NIRF Rankings 2023 in the ‘Innovation’ category. With record-breaking 109 IPRs (Intellectual Property Rights) filed in 2022 and 950 overall IPRs filed till date, along with 130 technologies being licensed to Industry partners, the institute has a remarkable translational rate of 13.68%. IIT-K’s ground-breaking work in innovation … Read more