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NIH Names Healthcare Provider Networks to Aid in Precision Medicine Initiative Enrollment
The HPOs will receive $13.8 million to enroll people interested in the All of Us program, gather participant health information, and help retain participants.
Searching Cancer Stem-like Cells, Researchers ID miRNA Linked to Breast Cancer Brain Metastasis
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By targeting a subclass of metastatic breast cancer cells called cancer stem-like cells, a team led by researchers at the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine has found a microRNA, miR-7, that appears to play a key role in brain-specific breast cancer metastasis.
QuantaLife has been awarded $820,000 in the first year of a five-year project with the University of Mississippi Medical Center to develop microdroplet PCR-based point-of-care tests to detect methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
NIH Awards $26M to Five Academic Medical Centers for Alzheimer's Study
The ARIC Neurocognitive Study will employ brain imaging and new genetic technologies to gather information from thousands of patients, in addition to data collected through the past two decades by the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study into the risk factors associated with heart disease and stroke.