Neurological & Psychological Disorders
News on research and diagnostic developments in neuroscience.
Analysis Estimates Psychiatric Disorder Risk from Specific Copy Number Variants in Danish Cohort
The population-based analysis found that deletions and duplications in six genomic loci generally increased risk for autism spectrum disorder and ADHD.
Multiomic Analysis of ALS Pinpoints Altered Lipid Metabolism as Potential Therapeutic Target
Researchers analyzed spinal motor neurons and ocular motor neurons to identify shared metabolic perturbations in inherited and sporadic ALS.
Viome Raises $54M to Advance mRNA Platform for Diagnosis, Drug Development
The funding is earmarked to support Viome's advancement of its mRNA platform in early disease diagnosis and therapy development.
Valted Seq Raises $10.5M Seed Funding
The firm will put the funding toward its HiF-Seq single-cell sequencing platform, which will be used to interrogate neurodegenerative disease samples.
Polygenic Risk Scores Edge Toward Clinic, Though Disease Prediction Utility Questions Linger
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Researchers have conflicting interpretations of recent studies into how much polygenic risk scores might contribute to disease risk predictions.