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Virtual reality is a rapidly expanding area of tech and gaming and important in medicine and health.
… tools that can enhance the remote interactions. Doctors can today collaborate doing surgery …
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Researchers identified 13 gene regions that influence cholesterol levels, some of which affected people differently if they are smokers or former smokers.
… researchers and their collaborators identified 13 new gene regions that influence cholesterol levels, some of which … smoking affected the relationship between an individual's gene variants and their lipids. Lipids consist of low-density … need for participant diversity, detecting gene-lifestyle interactions requires massive amounts of data. Researchers …
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NHGRI will hold a workshop in September 2019 focused on Genomics in Medicine and Health.
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Informed consent is more than a form; it’s a process. What does it involve?
… is a process — often more than a one-time endeavor. It is interactions between a research team and a potential research … participant or their legal representative. During these interactions, members of the research team provide potential …
Healthcare Provider Genomics Education Resource
Genomics plays a role in every area of nursing, whether nurses are at the bedside providing one-on-one care, treating entire populations, teaching the next generation of nurses, or making discoveries in the lab.
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The Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) Project has created a detailed resource on the letters of life, DNA, identifying genes and regions that may regulate genes in the human and mouse genomes.
… to identify and characterize their functional roles in gene regulation. "A key challenge in ENCODE is that … to turn genes on or off, or tune the exact levels of gene activity, help drive the formation of distinct cell … marks, and new data types, such as long-range DNA interactions and protein-RNA interactions." As a new feature, …
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Dr. Sharon Milgram is an adjunct investigator in the Genetics and Molecular Biology Branch at the National Human Genome Research Institute.
Event
The Advances in Genomic Technology Development (AGTD) 2023 Annual Meeting was hosted by the Technology Development Coordinating Center (TDCC) in-person and virtually from Tuesday, June 6, until Thursday, June 8, at The Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine, La Jolla, CA.
… Morris, Ph.D. NHGRI Genome Technologies: Protein-DNA Interactions Session Moderators: Michal Rozenwald, University … 8:45 a.m. STAMPing RNA binding protein-RNA networks Gene Yeo, Ph.D., MBA University of California, San Diego … Hugo Medina-Muñoz, Ph.D., UC, San Diego presents: Gene Yeo, Ph.D., MBA, University of California, San Diego and …
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A biological pathway is a series of actions among molecules in a cell that leads to a certain product or a change in the cell.
… Other metabolic pathways actually help to build molecules. Gene-regulation pathways turn genes on and off. Such action … hope was based on the success of imatinib (Gleevec), a drug that was specifically designed to treat a blood cancer … a certain product or a change in the cell. … Biochemistry, Gene Expression, Metabolism, Medication … A biological …
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Dr. Carolyn M. Hutter is the director of the Division of Genome Sciences at the National Human Genome Research Institute.​
… consortia work for genome-wide association studies and on gene-environment interactions for cancer and other complex diseases. Dr. … TA, Green ED. Nat Rev Genet . 2018 Mar;19(3):175-185.  Gene-environment interactions in cancer epidemiology: a …