Genetics

Tools & Techniques Diagnostics & prognostics

Solving the Big Problems

| Luke Turner

We speak to bioengineer Stephen Quake to learn about the noninvasive prenatal tests that have saved thousands of pregnant women’s lives

Research Field Genetics

From Sports Captain to Genome Mapper

| Luke Turner

We sit down with England’s Chief Scientific Officer, Professor Dame Sue Hill, to learn how genomics will influence the future of pathology.

Research Field Neuroscience

Searching for Schizophrenia

| Michael Schubert

Researchers identified the cell types associated with schizophrenia mutations

Research Field Cancer

Understanding Pancreatic Cancer Prognosis

| Roisin McGuigan

Mutations in four main genes influence survival rates of pancreatic adenocarcinoma patients

Research Field Diagnostics & prognostics

Better Biopsies for Amyloidosis

| Roisin McGuigan

Diagnosis of familial amyloid polyneuropathy can be both tricky and slow – but a different approach could hold the answer

Research Field Genetics

Kallikrein Dream

| Roisin McGuigan

Eleftherios P. Diamandis, Hold ’em for Life Chair in Prostate Cancer Biomarkers, University of Toronto.

Research Field Cell & molecular biology

HED Hair

| Roisin McGuigan

Researchers link hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia and male pattern baldness.

Research Field Cell & gene therapy

From Bench to Bedside and Back Again

| Roisin McGuigan

Sitting Down With... James Wilson, Professor and Director, Rose H. Weiss Orphan Disease Center.

Outside the Lab Animal models

Pulling Back the Pre-Clinical Curtain

| William Aryitey

Are mouse models the best option we have?

Tools & Techniques Genetics

Metabolic Mystery Revealed

| Michael Schubert

A new GWAS shows that anorexia nervosa is not purely psychiatric – metabolic factors also play a role.

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