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Predictive, preventive, personalized & participatory medicine

Using genome sequencing and blood tests, a doctor will be able to determine a patient's probability of developing certain diseases and based on this individualized risk profile. Personalized therapies could then be designed to cut the likelihood of illness, increasing average lifespans by 10 to 30 years ... Wired

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10/01/2008 Permalink
Chromosome damage that blocks cell suicide key to cancer

Normally when a chromosome is damaged, the cell carrying the chromosome turns on a gene named p53, which helps kill the cell. When mutated, p53 fails to carry out this vital function. That is why mutant p53 is a cancer-causing gene and is found in most human tumors. "Loss of a single telomere may be a primary event that puts a cell on the road to cancer," says Kent Golic, a professor of biology and senior author of the study ... University of Utah

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A simple test kit that tests for many diseases biomarkers

A team led by scientists at the University of Leeds has developed a biosensor technology that uses antibodies to detect biomarkers - molecules in the human body which are often a marker for disease - much faster than current testing methods. "We've designed simple instrumentation to make the biosensors easy to use and understand," says Dr Paul Millner from the Faculty of Biological Sciences at the University of Leeds. "They'll work in a format similar to the glucose biosensor testing kits that diabetics currently use." ... more

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Study allowed participants to "shape their own brain activity"

"The aim of the study was to improve sleep quality and memory performance by 'rewarding' the existence of certain activities of the brain," said the study's workgroup leader, Dr. Manuel Schabus, researcher for the division of physiological psychology at the University of Salzburg in Austria. EEG changes transferred into sleep and improved immediate memory retrieval after learning ... more

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