Entries for 'genetic sequencing'
Press Release
Sydney-based biotech start-up, 23Strands to play an integral and leading role in researching the benefit of genomic medicine to Indigenous Australians.
Leading this 5 year collaboration is Professor Alex Brown from the Australian National University who focussed on establishing the National Indigenous Genomics Network of research nodes to engage with Indigenous Australians in genetic research and health care in a culturally safe way.
Cancer23
23Strands is standing in solidarity in the fight against ovarian cancer. Ovarian cancer remains one of the most fatal cancers affecting women. Globally, a woman or girl who is diagnosed with ovarian cancer faces a 49% chance of surviving the next five years. Despite this, research in ovarian cancer persists to be disproportionately low in comparison to other fields of oncology.
Press Release
As part of a prestigious program to encourage research collaboration, 23Strands has secured funding in partnership with the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). The Australian Research Council’s Linkage Program (ARC LP) aims to encourage and extend cooperative approaches to research and encourages the transfer of skills, knowledge and ideas as a basis for securing commercial and other benefits of research.
Research News
A mutation present in modern humans seems to drive greater neuron growth than does an ancient hominin version.
Research News
Researchers have identified DNA regions that are associated with physical activity or leisure screen time. The findings confirm that physical activity is beneficial for health and suggest that a more sedentary lifestyle can be explained by how muscles respond to exercise.
Research News
Calls for a livestock gene bank to be created in Australia
Cancer23
A new paper from University of Helsinki, suggests a method for accurately analysing genomics data in cancer archival biopsies.
Fertility23
Researchers in China show that a technique used to replace diseased mitochondria does not affect early development.
Press Release
Innovative Australian healthcare technology company links with university’s AI Institute for research into personalised medicine.
Research News
A new study aimed at explaining different responses to viral epidemics reveals that ancestry and associated genetic variation can explain population-level differences in the immune response to the flu virus and perhaps also to COVID-19.
Research News
Researchers at Harvard Medical School and Oxford University have now developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool called EVE (evolutionary model of variant effect), which uses a sophisticated type of machine learning to detect patterns of genetic variation across hundreds of thousands of nonhuman species and then use them to make predictions about the meaning of variations in human genes.
Fertility23
Australians going through IVF will soon be able to claim a Medicare rebate for testing that can help them prevent passing serious genetic disorders on to their child.
Research News
Genetic sequencing is becoming the catalyst for a new area of patients no longer interested in a “cookie cutter” diagnosis.
Cancer23
The potential of mRNA technology goes well beyond COVID into some of our most prevalent diseases, from the flu to heart disease and even cancer.
Cardio23
It has been shown that blood group plays a role in how a person is infected by viruses and bacteria and even for the occurrence of cardiovascular diseases and cancer.