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Machine learning tool predicts cancer treatment response based on genetic mutations
A groundbreaking study led by USC Assistant Professor of Computer Science Ruishan Liu has uncovered how specific genetic mutations influence cancer treatment outcomes-insights that could help doctors ...
Supercomputer simulation shows why beneficial mutations rarely lead to hypermutators in real organisms
In real life, mutants can arise when their DNA changes to give them an advantage over the rest of the population. A team from the University of Michigan has used simulations on the Pittsburgh ...
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Explaining KRAS Mutations For Patients With Colorectal Cancer
Dr. Marwan G. Fakih explains that KRAS mutations, found in 45% of patients with colorectal cancer, include the rare KRAS G12C mutation, leading to Lumakras approval.
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Mutations Are the Raw Materials of Evolution
The human genome, for example, contains over 3.1 billion ... the change in DNA sequence may even turn out to be beneficial to the organism. A mutation that occurs in body cells that are not ...
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Two Mutations are Implicated in Many Cancers & Offer Treatment Target
Scientists have linked roughly five percent of adult cancers to mutations in genes called FOCAD and TTC37. Another gene known ...
Mutations in two gene pairs point to a promising drug target in 5% of adult cancers
Scientists from the Cancer Dependency Map (DepMap) at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Columbia University have ...
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Does life history affect molecular evolutionary rates?
For example, the molecular clock theory (Zuckerkandl ... referred to as neutral or synonymous substitutions. Also, beneficial mutations are expected to be rare and deleterious ones quickly ...
Autism researchers shed light on how α2δ protein mutations affect neurodevelopmental processes
A study in the journal Pharmaceuticals has uncovered how specific genetic mutations in α2δ-1 and α2δ-3 proteins linked to ...