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Back to SearchAre circulating DNA and inflammation related? Elizabeth Tracey reports
Circulating cell free DNA fragments are found in your bloodstream when cells die and release what’s inside. Some of that DNA is your genetic material…
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Can a blood test for DNA predict Alzheimer’s disease and frailty? Elizabeth Tracey reports
You may have heard the term ‘liquid biopsy.’ Most often referring to cancer detection, such technology aims to find materials circulating in the bloo…
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A blood test looking for your DNA is proving increasingly useful, Elizabeth Tracey reports
Some cancer tests and prenatal assessments already use DNA found circulating in someone’s blood to look for certain cancers or assure the health of a…
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Your own genetic material from two cellular locations can be found in your blood, Elizabeth Tracey reports
You have quite a lot of the genetic material DNA circulating in your bloodstream. Peter Abadir, a geriatrics expert at Johns Hopkins, is looking at D…
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It may now be possible to tell who is going to react badly to some forms of cancer therapy, Elizabeth Tracey reports
Immunotherapies for cancer can be lifesavers, but they can also provoke an overwhelming immune response that can be life threatening. Now a Johns Hop…
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Using two immunotherapies in colon cancer helps, Elizabeth Tracey reports
People with a type of advanced colorectal cancer who were treated with two different immunotherapy drugs did much better than a group treated with a …
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Studying cancers in three dimensions has revealed a kind of regression, Elizabeth Tracey reports
As cancer cells grow, a study looking at their three dimensional architecture reveals that they become more like cells normally seen in fetal life. J…
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What are we learning from studying cancers in three dimensions? Elizabeth Tracey reports
An effort is underway to characterize cancerous tumors in three dimensions, with an eye toward a more complete understanding of their behavior. A ser…
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What can a 3D atlas of cancer teach us? Elizabeth Tracey reports
When cancer exists in the body it has a three dimensional structure, an architecture, that only now is being looked at in detail to understand better…
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Text messages meeting people where they are allow children to avoid becoming obese, Elizabeth Tracey reports
Childhood obesity is a worldwide problem with long term health implications, especially cardiovascular disease. Now a study co-led by Johns Hopkins p…
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