Gene Signatures Predict Interferon Response For Multiple Sclerosis Patients
Multiple sclerosis (MS) can be an unpredictable disease. It develops when the body's immune system attacks healthy nerve cells and disrupts normal nerve signaling. Patients experience a wide range of symptoms—including tingling, paralysis, pain, fatigue, and blurred vision—that can appear independently or in combination, sporadically or persistently. Although symptoms appear in no particular orde...Bioelectronic ‘signatures?hold key to DNA mutations
A new method to identify DNA mutations may shepherd in an era of small, portable, electronic devices for the rapid screening and identification of genes that harbor disease. Joseph Wang, director of the Center for Bioelectronics and Biosensors at the Biodesign Institute at ASU, led a team effort that successfully merged work in the fields of biosensors, electronics, and nanotechnology to...Scientists use gene signatures to match cancer and other diseases with potentially effective drugs
In one of the most ambitious spinoffs of the human genome project, researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Children's Hospital Boston, the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, and other collaborating centers have unveiled a new, systematic approach to drug discovery that matches diseases with potential treatments using a universal language based on cells' distinctive gene activity profiles, o...Beyond the DNA: Chemical signatures reveal genetic switches in the genome
Investigators from the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (LICR) and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine have made a breakthrough in identifying functional elements in the human genome, according to a report published online today in Nature Genetics. While the DNA sequence can identify genes (the 'what') within the genome, it cannot answer the more fundamen...Electronic signatures bill sent to Governor
MADISON - A bill that will make signing on the virtual line the same as signing on paper, is on its way to Governor Doyles desk. The Wisconsin Legislature passed a measure that will help move our state toward a paperless society. Consumer advocacy groups, business groups and contract law attorneys hailed the bills passage. The Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA) is a bi-partisan...