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Published on June 22, 2018
Clinical categories for psychiatric disorders may need to be rethought, suggests a new study from the aptly named Brainstorm Consortium, a collaborative effort that accepted input from researchers representing 600 institutions worldwide. By pooling their data on hundreds of thousands of genomes, these researchers found genetic connections among distinct psychiatric…
Published on June 21, 2018
Nightingale Health, the developer of a blood biomarker technology for studying chronic diseases, said today it will analyze the biomarker profiles of 500,000 blood samples from UK Biobank, under a 30-month collaboration the company will fund through a €10 million ($11.6 million) investment in the biorepository. The technology, Nightingale said,…
Published on May 4, 2018
Migraines often run in families, and although studies have implicated three particular genes in more severe, but uncommon, familial and sporadic forms of migraine, the genetic basis for the most types of migraine that run in families isn’t understood. Scientists in Finland and the U.S now report on an analysis…
Published on April 9, 2018
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and five biopharma partners are betting $50 million-plus that the consortium they have launched to sequence the exomes of all 500,000 contributors of samples to the UK Biobank by the end of 2019 will do more than glean new insights into how human genetic variations shape human biology…
Published on March 12, 2018
Researchers from Penn Medicine have presented study results showing that the behavior of clinicians was influenced by their patients' genotype data when prescribing antiplatelet drug regimens. The first-of-its-kind study was designed to examine how closely clinicians’ prescribing practices of antiplatelet treatments followed current research suggesting that patients who carry a…
Published on March 17, 2017
A global, secure data discovery platform developed by the American Heart Association (AHA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS) is open for use worldwide by researchers, physicians, computational biologists, computer engineers, and trainees. The cloud-based AHA Precision Medicine Platform is designed to let users access and analyze cardiovascular and stroke data,…
Published on November 30, 2016
The International Phenome Centre Network (IPCN), a worldwide consortium of research centers focused on disease prevention, detection and treatment by better understanding the dynamic interactions of our genes and our environment in the development and progression disease, launched November 29 with the goal of tackling pressing global health challenges including autism,…
Published on August 4, 2015
Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common form of physical disability in children, with an incidence rate of approximately two cases for every 1,000 live births. Historically, CP has been attributed to an array of factors such as asphyxia, stroke, and infections in the developing brains. However, researchers from The…
Published on May 13, 2015
The Montreal Heart Institute (MHI) agreed to collaborate with AstraZeneca to search the genomes of up to 80,000 patients for genes associated with cardiovascular diseases and diabetes, their complications, and treatment outcomes. The goal is to drive understanding of the biologic mechanisms underlying these conditions and their complications and to…