Sentences with phrase «genetic research communities»

Hieter and Jeannie Lee, a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital (and 2018 GSA President), were co-chairs of 2016's Allied Genetics Conference, which brought together over 3,000 attendees from seven different genetic research communities to exchange ideas and findings.

On May 22, 2008 Mount Vernon Middle School Career Day Rebecca Mitchell, M.S.N., C.N.S. spoke to approximately 250 students, teachers and community members about various career opportunities available in the genetic research community, including nursing, advanced practice nursing, bioinformatics, genetic counseling and translational research.

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The authors contend that the Parkinson's community must come together and focus its activism in support of: developing a better understand the environmental, genetic, and behavioral causes and risk factors for Parkinson's to help prevent its onset; increasing access to care — an estimated 40 percent of people with the disease in both the U.S. and Europe do not see a neurologist and the number is far greater in developing nations; advocating for increases in research funding for the disease; and lowering the cost of treatments — many patients in low - income countries do not have access to drugs that are both lifesaving and improve quality of life.

The St. Laurent Institute, a non-profit medical research institute focused on the systems biology of disease, today announced in a study published in the July edition of Genome Biology, that genetic matter, previously ignored by the scientific community, may play an important role in cancer.

«This research is valuable to the scientific community as it bridges genetic and environmental factors and helps to illustrate one possible route to ADHD.

Her current duties as a research assistant to pediatric rheumatologist James Jarvis include finding possible genetic and / or environmental causation to the severity of rheumatic diseases in Native American communities.

The discovery could help scientists understand how social, cultural, and environmental factors interact with genetics to create differences in health outcomes between different ethnic populations, the authors say, and provides a counterpoint to long - standing efforts in the biomedical research community to replace imprecise racial and ethnic categorization with genetic tests to determine ancestry.

The research team identified the genetic «map» of the human parasitic scabies mite, accelerating research that could lead to new ways of preventing and treating scabies infestations and prevent lifelong complications for people in remote Aboriginal communities.

The rapid advances in genetic editing technologies over the past few years have handed the keys to the castle to the research and development community.

These data had been shared by people who purchased their own genetic profiles via www.23andMe.com website and agreed to participate in the company's optional research initiative, which makes data available to the scientific community, while protecting privacy.

The MRC Centre for Genomics and Global Health (CGGH) is supporting the development of the P. falciparum Community Project by providing expertise and resources for population genetic analysis, web application development and research capacity building.

When Vauterin joined the CGGH, he was new to malaria research but has since built a deep appreciation for the richness of this data — a perspective that's been helped by sharing office space with Dr Roberto Amato and Jacob Almagra - Garcia, who are both deeply involved with the population - level genetic analyses of the P. falciparum Community Project data.

Not so long ago, there was a hope in the research community that common genetic variation, i.e. variants present at minor allele frequencies > 5 % in human populations, might explain most or all of the heritability of common complex disease.

These resources comprise a «rice diversity research platform» that is widely used the international rice research community to understand the genetic basis of complex traits, to investigate molecular mechanisms involved in key forms of stress tolerance, and to efficiently utilize natural variation to breed highly productive rice varieties for the future that are more nutritious, resource - use efficient, and stress tolerant than those we currently grow.

As a reference tool for the genetics research community and clinical genetics laboratories, a high quality genetic variant database for the Swedish population is being established.

The Open Source Health Precision Medicine PCOS Project was started in December 2015 and may be the largest ever project to use state of the art genetic and molecular research, science, evidence - based integrative medicine and technology to help the growing underserved community of women with PCOS.

Abstract: There is widespread consensus amongst the veterinary and research communities on the need for a collaborative, international effort to address challenges surrounding effective use of genetic health testing (GT) in dogs.

Whether dealing with cutting - edge surgical procedures or genetic research, it is obvious that the veterinary medical community has more to learn about canine heart disease.