Gene Therapy: A Boon in Medical Science
What is Gene Therapy? Gene therapy is a medical field that focuses on genetically altering cells to produce a...
Hurler Syndrome Gene Therapy: Shows Success in a Small Study
Hurler syndrome (also called mucopolysaccharidosis type 1, Hurler variant [MPSIH]), is a genetic disorder that causes abnormal musculoskeletal development,...
Are You Aware of the Latest Technological Advances in Health Care?
A few decades ago, remote consultations, lab-grown organs, and gene-editing therapies were the stuff of science fiction. Fast forward...
Aberrant DNA methylation in tumor biology
Aberrant DNA methylation, a type of epigenetic modification, is a common hallmark of tumor biology. DNA methylation refers to...
Clostridioides Difficile Infection and the Microbiome
Clostridioides difficile is an important bacterial pathogen that sickens half a million Americans every year. This infection can be...
Management of rare mutations in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) – PART 2: RET, NTRK1
RET RET (an abbreviation for Rearranged during Transfection) encodes a receptor tyrosine kinase for members of the glial cell...
Infectious Disorders: In Light of Current Research
Infectious disease is defined as an illness that is transmitted from an infected source to a susceptible host, infected...
Genome Sequencing Project – Answers for Rare Disease
Some patients with a suspected rare genetic disease go without a diagnosis for years or even throughout a lifetime....
How Oncology Research in 2021 Shed Light on Therapy Area?
New research on oncology is creating new knowledge in several areas of therapy. This year is characterized by the...
How to know the status of acute lymphoblastic leukemia from epigenetic DNA modification?
Hematological cancers were among the first to be discovered to have abnormal demethylation status. Excretion of epigenetic DNA modification...