Precision Genomics Collaboratory News

Snellings, a graduate student in Doug Marchuk's lab, is co-lead author on a new publication that uses single nucleus sequencing to better understand what causes some cerebral cavernous malformations to stay small and others to grow.

Two Duke faculty members have been elected as members of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS), one of the highest honors in the profession.

The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) has named Jen-Tsan Ashley Chi, MD, PhD, as co-winner of the Molecular Cancer Research Michael B. Kastan Award for Research Excellence on behalf of his all-Duke research team for their paper — A TAZ-ANGPTL4-NOX2 Axis Regulates Ferroptotic Cell Death and Chemoresistance in Epithelial Ovarian Cancer.  

Some guys have it all: the muscle, the power, the high social status, the accelerated aging.

Breast cancer is the second most common cancer among women in the United States. One in eight women will develop the disease. Typically, patients respond well to initial treatment, which usually includes some combination of surgery, radiation, chemotherapy and hormone treatment.

Clinicians have historically used family health history collection as a primary method for identifying actionable disease-risk assessments. However, as large-scale genome screening programs continue to rise in popularity, the scientific community has questioned the efficacy of this traditional method, wondering at the superiority of variants identified by sequencing over family health history in identifying these risks.

Duke scientists John Franklin Rawls, PhD, and Linfa Wang, PhD, are among 65 new fellows elected to the American Academy of Microbiology

Researchers at Duke University are hoping to prove that a probiotic could reduce your risk of getting COVID-19, and if you do get infected, prevent you from getting severely ill.

OPSD is a school-wide initiative focused on the training and support of physician-scientists.

The Precision Genomics Collaboratory has released its first newsletter, highlighting top genomic news stories, featured publications from members of our community, funding opportunities and more.

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