Northwestern University
Biden Cancer Moonshot Announces New Projects Focused on Decreasing Cancer Burden in Africa
Programs aim to improve screening tools and adherence, advance new point-of-care diagnostics, and increase access to precision medicine on the continent.
Uterine Fibroid Study Digs Into Heritable Risk, Relevant Cell Types With Integrated Omics
By incorporating expression, epigenetic, and chromatin architecture findings, researchers uncovered the effects of heritable risk variants.
Vegetarian Diet GWAS Leads to Related Genetic Loci, Genes
Researchers used UK Biobank data to track down genetic variants with significant or tenuous ties to vegetarianism, along with related brain- or lipid metabolism-related genes.
DNA Methylation Study Finds Association Between Biological Aging, Adverse Childhood Experiences
The findings show that people who experienced adverse childhood experiences such as negligence or violence have accelerated biological aging later in life.
Coronary Artery Calcium Score Beats Polygenic Risk Score at Heart Disease Risk Prediction
The combination of the two scores also had no additive predictive power compared with the coronary artery calcium score alone, the researchers found.