The Era of Personalized Cancer Therapeutics
Isabel Levy & Seema Bachoo Glossary Adoptive T cell transfer, Allosteric site, Clonal expansion, CRISPR-Cas9, DNA, DNA sequencing, EGFR, ‘Gain-of-function’ mutation, Genome, Genomic Instability, GTPase, GDP, GTP, Kinase, ‘Loss-of-function’ mutation, MAPK signaling pathway, Mutation, Oncogene/Proto-oncogene, Personalized Cancer Medicine, PI3K pathway, RAS, TP53 gene, Tumor suppressor gene Background Cancer: a disease of the genome […]
Genomics: The Advent of Preventative Medicine?
Olivia Crossley Glossary Amniocentesis, Cell, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Chorionic villus sampling, Chromosome, COVID-19, CRISPR-Cas9, Cystic fibrosis, DNA, Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Etiology, Familial Hypercholesterolemia, Gene, Genetic Counselling, Genetic Testing, Hemophilia, Leopard syndrome, Mucopolysaccharidosis type I, Noncoding DNA, Parkinson’s disease, Pharmacogenomics, Phenylketonuria, Precision Medicine, Prenatal testing, Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disorder, Spinal Muscular Atrophy What is […]
COVID-19: How will testing and vaccines have to adapt to new variants?
Joana Vidigueira Glossary Antibody, Antigen, Antigen-presenting Cell, B cell, Booster, Clinical Trial, COVID-19, Dendritic Cell, Deoxyribonucleic Acid, Epidemiology, Helper T-cell, Host Cell, Immunity, Immune Response, Killer T-cell, Lymph Node, Macrophage, Mutation, Ribonucleic acid, RT-PCR, SARS-CoV-2, Vaccine, Variant, Virus Abbreviations SARS: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, CoV: coronavirus, MERS: Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome, DNA: deoxyribonucleic acid, […]
Pharmacogenomics: The future of medicine?
Celeste Cohen Picture credit: National Human Genome Research Institute Note: All terms shown in bold are defined in the glossary at the end of the article. Defining Pharmacogenomics From chemotherapy to HIV drugs, the past century has seen rapid advances in medical innovation, which have given rise to a wide range […]