Articles by Steven I. Benowitz, M.A.

February 23, 2015 — 20 papers published online in 2014 highlight research on DNA biorepositories and electronic medical records to better understand the genomics of disease.

January 28, 2015 — Investigators with The Cancer Genome Atlas have discovered genomic differences in head and neck cancers caused by infection with the human papillomavirus.

January 05, 2015 — NIH has awarded grants of more than $28 million aimed at deciphering the language of how and when genes are turned on and off.

October 29, 2014 — New research provides a better understanding of some of the genetic and cellular changes in pathways and processes involved in Autism Spectrum Disorder.

October 23, 2014 — The Cancer Genome Atlas identified molecular subtypes to help clinicians determine which tumors are more aggressive and which will respond to treatment.

October 22, 2014 — NIH grants aim to gauge if genomics can be used to help diagnose diabetes, manage heart disease and guide cancer clinicians to the most effective drugs.

September 11, 2014 — NIH awards more than $64 million to for a database of human cellular responses called the Library of Integrated Network-based Cellular Signatures or LINCS.

August 27, 2014 — Researchers analyzing human, fly, and worm genomes have found these species have key genomic processes in common, reflecting their shared ancestry.

August 21, 2014 — TCGA researchers have found that chromophobe renal cell carcinoma stems partly from gene alterations in the mitochondria, the cell's energy supplier.

August 01, 2014 — Grants are awarded to GTEx project to explore human gene expression and regulation in different tissues, and how genomic variation modulates that expression.