by | Jul 31, 2018 | Liu, Chang, Pfeifer, John
— Technology Description: In collaboration with the scientists at Broad Institute, WU scientists have developed a new software with a new algorithm that enables HLA high resolution typing from exome sequencing data. It will provide a significantly better tool to guide the bone marrow transplantation a…
by | Mar 10, 2018 | Jeffe, Donna, Lieu, Judith, Rachakonda, Tara
— The prevalence of hearing loss (HL) in adolescents has grown over the past decade, with rates of 19.5% for HL of >15dB and 5.3% for HL >25dB. Adults with HL are 21% to 39% less likely to have attained postsecondary education than normal-hearing persons and are 1.5 to 2 times more likely to exp…
by | Mar 10, 2018 | Colditz, Graham
— One important aspect for individuals to maintain health and prevent disease is through an educational understanding of making healthy choices while avoiding unhealthy choices. Clinicians at Washington University in St. Louis have created an evidence-based guide to disease prevention and healthy liv…
by | Mar 10, 2018 | Corbo, Joseph, Enright, Jennifer, Toomey, Matthew
— Optogenetics is one of the most important technological breakthroughs in neuroscience during the past decade, and holds tremendous promise for dissecting the mechanisms of neurologic disease and for treating a range of disorders. Optogenetic actuators are ion channels or pumps that can be regulated …
by | Mar 10, 2018 | Corbo, Joseph, Havranek, James, Mitra, Robi, Myers, Connie, Qi, Zongtai, Zhang, Chi
— Background: The function of enzymes involved in homologous recombination can be exploited in the field of genetic engineering in order to generate mutations of interest. However, this machinery is not functionally efficient in post mitotic or terminally differentiated cells. Viral gene therapy techn…