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Genome Institute adopts visual map technology for genome sequencing

2012-11-21T18:05:31+00:00

Researchers at the Genome Institute at Washington University are using a new genome sequencing technology that provides a high resolution, complete visual map of a whole genome and individual chromosomes.

Gene sequencing project identifies abnormal gene that launches rare childhood leukemia

2012-11-12T19:32:03+00:00

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital - Washington University Pediatric Cancer Genome Project discovery provides insight into a tough-to-cure form of acute myeloid leukemia that lays the groundwork for clinical care advances.

Global genomes are medical road map

2012-11-01T19:19:58+00:00

Genomes of people whose homelands stretch from Africa and Asia to Europe and the Americas will help researchers find genetic roots of diseases, researchers say.

International Consortium Sequences 1000 Human Genomes

2012-10-31T20:45:52+00:00

An international consortium of researchers has sequenced the genomes of more than 1000 people, creating the largest catalog yet of human genetic variation.

Richard Wilson directs the Washington University Genome Institute, one of four major research institutions involved in the 1000 Genomes Project.

Putting the Genome to Work in Breast Cancer

2012-10-18T20:22:49+00:00

Although breast cancer is among the best-characterized tumor types, continuing efforts to refine the sequencing of the human genome are opening the door to a new treatment paradigm in which oncologists will have swift access to a wealth of information that will enable more personalized therapy for patients at earlier stages of disease.

Genome research finds some deadly forms of breast cancer genetically similar to ovarian

2012-10-04T18:36:09+00:00

A striking revelation in the most comprehensive analysis of breast cancer to date finds that one of the most deadly forms – the triple negative – which disproportionately affects African American and younger women – is genetically more similar to ovarian cancer tumors than breast cancers.

Many, Many Microbiomes

2012-10-01T13:10:11+00:00

It's one thing to know that they are everywhere: teeming masses of microbes covering computer keys, eking their way into plant roots, coating the human body

Aggressive Breast Cancer May Respond to Ovarian Cancer Treatment

2012-09-24T13:07:50+00:00

A major breast cancer analysis project has catalogued the spectrum of mutations that underpin the four basic categories of the disease, and also found that one of the most aggressive forms of breast tumor shares more features at the mutational level with high-grade serous ovarian tumors than with other subtypes of breast cancer. The data, published in Nature, represents the most comprehensive molecular blueprint of breast cancer generated to date, and could help researchers design and develop more effective drugs and combination treatment regimens that target each subtype of disease according to its molecular background.

Genetics to determine cancer treatments

2012-09-13T12:30:55+00:00

The war on cancer is poised to enter a new phase that promises more precise treatments, fewer side effects and, most of all, more survivors.

Studies offer ‘panoramic view’ of lung cancer

2012-09-13T11:34:55+00:00

Lung cancer causes more deaths than any other form of cancer. About 1.6 million people worldwide are diagnosed with the disease each year, with fewer than 20% still alive five years later.