Precision medicine is often touted as the future of medicine. But so far, it hasn’t been helpful in the war against COVID-19. Here is how it could be used to tease apart the nuances of the disease.
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Genetic analysis of virus samples from New Zealand’s latest COVID-19 cases is now much swifter. It’s providing key information, but hasn’t yet answered the question of where this second wave started.
Attempts to find brain structures responsible for supposed cognitive sex differences have not succeeded.
Hyperosmia is relatively rare, but there are many reasons a person might develop this condition – even temporarily.
New research provides a template for understanding the role of genetic switches in the development of complex diseases whose causes have so far evaded scrutiny.
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a crippling, progressive neurodegenerative disease for which there is no cure. Now it seems that a diabetes drug may help some cases.
Having extra copies of a gene called BACE2 can slow down the development of Alzheimer’s disease in human brain cells.
The “winners” evolved in the warm, subtropical regions. Those that evolved in cooler temperate ecosystems – the “losers” – risk becoming extinct.
We show that minute amounts of cancer DNA can be detected in blood more sensitively than ever before.
Our study looked at both identical and non-identical sets of twins. We found that how sensitive you are is actually inherited genetically.
Whether you like the taste of rocket or not, these leafy greens actually have many health benefits, including anti-cancer properties.
There’s no evidence COVID-19 death rates are related to the genetic differences used to racialise people.
Our research will look for how differences in people’s innate immune systems may affect COVID-19 survival rates.
Researchers from Oregon Health and Science University found that variations in genes that code for parts of the cellular alarm system might play a role in how well people fight off COVID-19.
Knowing genetic associations in specific populations will make it possible to focus prevention and treatment on those who will benefit most, sparing expense and side effects from those who will not.
Is it genes, chromosomes, hormones, the immune sytem – or behaviour – that makes men more susceptible to the deadly disease?
If we are not careful, the coronavirus pandemic could lead to a rise in xenophobic attitudes.
From a scientific perspective, the results are fascinating and world-first. From a personal perspective, what I saw will stay with me for a long time.
Under pressure to develop a coronavirus vaccine, researchers have turned to protein synthesis, genetics and hybrid viruses. It is likely a mix of these approaches will be used to fight the coronavirus.
World Down Syndrome Day is marked on March 21 annually. Canadian scientists have helped improve the quality of life of those affected.
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Jenny Graves is a Friend of The Conversation.Distinguished Professor of Genetics and Vice Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University
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Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic Quality and Professor of Molecular Biology, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London
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Emeritus Robert Reford Professor and Professor of Medicine, McGill University
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Thomas Merritt is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Laurentian University
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Director of Bruce Lefroy Centre for Genetic Health Research, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Visiting Professor in Biomedical Ethics, Murdoch Children's Research Institute; Distinguished Visiting Professor in Law, University of Melbourne; Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, University of Oxford
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Emeritus Professor of Animal Genetics, University of Sydney
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Professor of Biogerontology, University of Brighton
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Matthew Flinders Professor of Biodiversity Genomics, Flinders University
