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University of Bristol via ScienceDaily
A type of study commonly used to pinpoint genetic variants associated with diseases can also be used to identify the lifestyle predictors that increase the risk of a disease — something that is often overlooked in genetic studies.
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ASCLS
 The fast pace of the science of medicine and globalization of disease, especially in genomics and infectious disease, has presented laboratory professionals with situations and dilemmas similar to those seen at the beginning of the HIV epidemic. Medical ethics have always emphasized the values of the individual. Now ethicists have identified the need to expand the focus on the individual (the clinical) to include communities and populations (public health). To be meaningful, the code of ethics for the laboratory profession was reviewed, and the latest version will be presented with explanations and analysis of its appropriateness.
The speaker for this event is Elissa Passiment, EdM, CLS. This webinar will be presented live March 24 and will be available as an archived program for 12 months following the live date. For more information and to register, visit www.ascls.org/webinars. ASCLS members receive a discounted registration rate.
University of Leeds via Lab Manager
A team the University of Leeds has secured a grant from the Wellcome Trust to find drugs to cure Ebola.
Although several Ebola vaccines are being developed, there are currently no effective anti-viral drugs to treat people once they get infected.
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UCLA Newsroom
Scientists at the UCLA Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research and Center for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy at UCLA have developed a new approach that could eventually be used to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The stem cell gene therapy could be applicable for 60 percent of people with Duchenne, which affects approximately 1 in 5,000 boys in the U.S. and is the most common fatal childhood genetic disease.
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University of California, San Francisco via Infection Control Today
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, and Johns Hopkins may have found a new way to diagnose Lyme disease, based on a distinctive gene "signature" they discovered in white blood cells of patients infected with the tick-borne bacteria. Even though it is hard to diagnose, Lyme disease is still the most common vector-borne illness in the United States, with 30,000 cases reported each year to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Medical News Today
It's not unusual for siblings to seem more dissimilar than similar: one becoming a florist, for example, another becoming a flutist and another becoming a physicist. Something of the same diversity applies to the "brood" of proteins produced from any single gene in human cells, a new study led by scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and McGill University has found.
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Health Canal
Blood serum proteins have been observed combining one-to-one with gold nanoparticles and prompting them to aggregate, scientists at Rice University reported. This is unexpected, according to Rice researchers Stephan Link and Christy Landes, who have led studies of the proteins most responsible for keeping solids in blood separated.
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HealthDay News
A growing number of young women with breast cancer are being tested for the BRCA gene mutations that substantially raise the risks of breast and ovarian tumors, a new study shows.
Researchers found that of nearly 900 women who developed breast cancer at age 40 or younger, most had undergone BRCA testing within a year of their diagnosis.
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NPR
The mayor of Hawaii County has declared a state of emergency on Hawaii's Big Island over an outbreak of mosquito-borne dengue fever. The island has seen nearly 250 confirmed cases of the mosquito-borne virus since September 2015. State health officials first reported two cases that originated there in late October 2015, Mayor Billy Kenoi says in his declaration.
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