Other highlights in the Dec. 25 JNCI

... of the two tumors. Marc Bollet, M.D., of the Institut Curie in Paris and colleagues compared these two methods with a new method that uses DNA breakpoint data by assessing their ability to distinguish between breast cancer recurrence and new primary tumors in 22 breast cancer patients. For 14 ...

Groundbreaking Study Reveals How Consumers Shop for Health Care

... insurance -- 8 in 10 -- were more likely to research cost than quality; this is significantly higher than insured respondents. -- The breakpoint for health care comparison shopping is higher than for consumer goods. The median price at which people shop for health care is $500, but ...

Blood-flow detector software show promise in preventing brain damage

... to track blood pressure and blood flow to the brain, the Hopkins-Cambridge team created a system that for the first time precisely determines the breakpoint at which the brain begins to lose its ability to cope with changes in blood pressure. The software does this, researchers say, by gauging minute ...

Breakpoint in Medical Technology

New Data From Large Safety Analysis of MYCAMINE Shows Favorable Clinical Safety Profile

... the first proposing susceptibility breakpoints of echinocandins, specifically MYCAMINE: A Proposal for an Antifungal Susceptibility Testing (AST) breakpoint of Micafungin and Candida: Integration of AST Surveys and Correlation with Clinical Outcomes In this study, investigators looked at two large, ...

Breakpoint in Biological News

Insight into DNA's 'weakest links' may yield clues to cancer biology

... Retrotransposons are mobile gene segments that duplicate themselves and insert the new copies back into other sites in the genome. The most common breakpoint involved two Ty elements in an inverted, head-to-head orientation, they reported. That finding led the researchers to suggest one possible mechanism ...

Breakpoint in Biological Technology

Chromosome breakpoints contribute to genetic variation

... breakage in evolution is non-random and that the breakpoint regions and the more stable regions of ... genes along chromosomes and variation within the breakpoint regions contribute to the evolution of an ... and his colleagues reported a surprising finding: breakpoint regions also contain a higher density of genes ...

Breakpoint in Biological Dictionary

Breakpoint

... For other uses, see breakpoint (disambiguation). Not to be confused with ... from "http://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/ breakpoint " ... breakpoint is the successor to the legendary Mekka & ...

Recombination frequency

... 0%, that would require an ... Recombination frequency is higher within certain genomic ... Frequency of ... thoroughly the recombination breakpoint frequency across the HIV ... The mean recombination frequency changes between C0 and C3HR are significant at ... The mean recombination ...