2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (592+ words) insideprecisionmedicine.com Scientists have developed a low-cost attachment that turns a smartphone into an eye screening tool for rural communities where access to ophthalmologists is limited. Results presented today at the 44th Congress of the European Society of Cataract and Refractive…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (361+ words) Inside Precision Medicine Surbhi Jain, PhD, MBBS Surbhi Jain, PhD, MBBS, is a staff scientist at Bio-Rad Laboratories and the R&D lead for the ddPLEX EGFR/KRAS/BRAF multiplexed droplet digital PCR panel. She is focused on developing ddPCR…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (641+ words) By Jonathan D. Grinstein, PhD Could an academic laboratory build genetic medicines for diseases the traditional drug-development model leaves behind? Sena-Esteves sees that mismatch repeatedly. “I wish it wasn’t that way—that we had plenty of money and could just work…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (322+ words) Scientists have found that certain chemotherapy drugs can age children’s healthy cells, causing the same amount of DNA damage in a short period that would normally accumulate over decades in middle-aged adults. Results published today in Science uncover the extent…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (502+ words) Excessive exposure to light during the hours of darkness is linked with changes to the shape and function of the heart, new research indicates. The findings, in the European Heart Journal, suggest nighttime light could be a new risk factor…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (423+ words) Blood hemoglobin levels that are considered borderline for anemia under current World Health Organization (WHO) thresholds may need further investigation, research in more than half a million adults suggests. The findings, in the Annals of Internal Medicine, showed a U-shaped…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (829+ words) Helicobacter pylori, the stomach bacterium best known for its role in gastric cancer, may also contribute to colorectal cancer (CRC), according to a new global analysis that estimates the infection could be related to as many as 22% of CRC cases…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (196+ words) Inside Precision Medicine Writing in JAMA Network Open, Matthew Krantz, MD, from Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and co-authors explain that drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS) is a severe, potentially fatal drug hypersensitivity reaction characterized by extensive skin…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (340+ words) Genetic variants commonly found in people of European descent are associated with accelerated progression of Parkinson’s disease (PD), research indicates. The findings, in JAMA Neurology, suggest common loss-of-function variants in the melanocortin 1 receptor (MC1R) gene, carried by more than 60% of individuals…...