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Learn How Multi-Gene Panels are Used to Find Hereditary Cancer
Multi-Gene Panels in Hereditary Cancer: Cause for Caution?
Learn where scientists need to exercise awareness when interpreting next-generation sequencing data for cancer screening.
Multi-Gene Panels in Hereditary Cancer: Cause for Caution?
Multi-Gene Panels in Hereditary Cancer: Cause for Caution?

Learn where scientists need to exercise awareness when interpreting next-generation sequencing data for cancer screening.

Learn where scientists need to exercise awareness when interpreting next-generation sequencing data for cancer screening.

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Genetic Mutations Can Be Benign or Cancerous—a New Method to Differentiate Between Them Could Lead to Better Treatments
Ryan Layer, The Conversation | May 27, 2022 | 5 min read
Tumors contain thousands of genetic changes, but only a few are actually cancer-causing. A quicker way to identify these driver mutations could lead to more targeted cancer treatments.
Learn About Variant Annotation in Hereditary Cancer
Assigning Meaning: Genetic Variant Interpretation in Hereditary Cancer
Qiagen | Jan 19, 2022 | 1 min read
Improving the reliability of genetic variant annotation and clinical interpretation
The Scientist Speaks Podcast - Episode 10
The Scientist’s Creative Services Team | Oct 28, 2020 | 1 min read
Cancer Immunotherapy: CRISPR Reveals Targets In Vivo
Circulating Fetal Cells Sequenced for Prenatal Testing Study
Emily Makowski | Dec 10, 2019 | 3 min read
Trophoblasts, collected from the mother during a blood draw, can determine fetal genetic abnormalities currently diagnosed through amniocentesis or chorionic villi sampling.
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New Guidelines Expand BRCA Screening
Ashley P. Taylor | Aug 21, 2019 | 2 min read
US Preventive Services Task Force recommends genetic testing for mutations in the cancer-related genes for more—but not all—women.
The Cancer Genes Needed for Immunotherapy Response
Anna Azvolinsky | Aug 7, 2017 | 4 min read
Using a large CRISPR-based screen, researchers find possible genetic culprits for patients not having success with immune checkpoint inhibitors.  
Massive RNAi Screens Probe for Genes Important to Cancer
Kerry Grens | Jul 26, 2017 | 3 min read
Two freely available databases include data on hundreds of human cancer cell lines. 
First Genetic Screen of Pigs Using ENU
Ashley Yeager | Jul 14, 2017 | 3 min read
Using the mutagenic chemical N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea, researchers confirm the role of a gene in a piglet deformity and identify potential models for human diseases. 
Bioethicist and Law Professor Dies
Kerry Grens | Jul 6, 2017 | 2 min read
John Robertson was known for his contributions to reproductive medicine ethics and for solidifying the scholarly connection between biomedicine and law.
Infographic: Single-Cell CRISPR Screens
Ruth Williams | Feb 28, 2017 | 1 min read
See how two new methods track responses to unique genetic manipulations in numerous individual cells in parallel.
Wanted: Transcriptional Regulators
Ruth Williams | Aug 1, 2016 | 2 min read
Researchers have designed a screen to find unique molecules, called riboswitches, that determine whether transcription will proceed.
Riboswitch Screen
Ruth Williams | Jul 31, 2016 | 1 min read
A newly developed method detects regulators of bacterial transcription called riboswitches.
Screening with CRISPR
Kelly Rae Chi | Jun 1, 2016 | 7 min read
Ever-improving CRISPR-based tools are already ripe for large-scale genetic screens.
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