What the study of the mutant gene behind aggressive adult leukaemia can offer for treatment
The U.S.-based multi-institutional study of 830 adult ALL patients treated between 2010 and 2024 found that about one in 10 ...
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Alzheimer’s Gene Carriers With Higher Meat Intake Had Lower Dementia Risk
(MedPage Today) -- People with a genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease did not have an expected increase in cognitive decline ...
Alzheimer’s Risk May Be Driven by a Single Gene
(MedPage Today) -- Most Alzheimer's disease and nearly half of all dementia was associated with variations in the APOE gene, ...
Opportunistic Cholesterol Gene Screens: Good in Theory Only?
(MedPage Today) -- A small pilot program was not enough to prove that opportunistic genomic screening for familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) ...
A key Alzheimer’s gene emerges in African American brain study
Scientists studying Alzheimer’s in African Americans have uncovered a striking genetic clue that may cut across racial lines. In brain ...
'Tiny but mighty' gene fragments are crucial for maintaining blood glucose levels
Microexons, tiny fragments of genes that are just 3-27 nucleotides long, are known to play a 'tiny but mighty' role ...