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This polygenic score predicts tamoxifen treatment resistance is better than conventional methods, with potential for personalized medicine application.
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UAB researchers are pioneering five new projects as they continue making new discoveries and advancing science to benefit oral health locally and globally.
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This devastating neurodevelopmental disorder has no currently approved treatments.
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A new artificial intelligence center will bring more discovery in the field to UAB.
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The award is the highest honor given by the ACMG Foundation for Genetic and Genomic Medicine.
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Researchers found 19 Bacteroides vulgatus genes that were unique to three strains that show early engraftment in patients after a fecal transplant, as opposed to seven strains that did not show early engraftment. Most transplant failures occur in the first four weeks.
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Cure HHT has named the HHT Clinic at UAB Hospital a Center of Excellence. Only hospitals equipped with the proper personnel, expertise, commitment and resources to provide comprehensive evaluation, treatment and education to individuals with HHT and their families receive this designation.
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Anindya Dutta, Ph.D., David Kimberlin, M.D., and Alan Tita, M.D., Ph.D., were elected to join the Association of American Physicians.
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Description of this mechanism offers a promising therapeutic target to limit lung injury and death. Lower respiratory tract infections, including bacterial pneumonia, are the fourth-leading cause of death worldwide, with 120 million to 156 million cases and 1.4 million deaths a year.
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AGHI is partnering with the UAB Department of Family and Community Medicine to aid research, patient care and insight on using the genomic sciences in primary care.
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The 10th annual Rare Disease Genomics Symposium will take place virtually March 10 from 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
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The UAB-led consortium, begun in 2006, has expanded to 24 clinical sites and conducted 18 clinical trials.
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The first large multi-ancestry genetics study of osteoarthritis, or OA, has found 10 novel OA-associated genetic loci, and results showed some of the OA-associated regions are robustly found in every population ancestry studied.
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Terry also won the Social Change, Talent and Spirit awards, earning a total of $3,300 in scholarships.
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This finding suggests utility of treatments before fecal microbial transplants to reduce recipient microbial communities. This would help donor microbial strains dominate in the recipient.
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The clinically approved drug ruxolitinib suppressed a mouse model of melanoma that is resistant to immune checkpoint blockers.
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Supporting on-campus housing for Birmingham Promise scholars would enhance the well-rounded collegiate experience students aim to receive while at UAB.
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This novel mode of altering gene silencing boosts the unfolded protein response pathway in the cancer cells, helping those cells survive during rapid growth.
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An absence of sub-strain variation over a short period was seen in sick patients, which may signal impending gut dysbiosis.
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New technologies are filling in gaps in the human genome and opening major areas for discovery. UAB researchers explain the pros and cons and how they are using long reads at UAB.
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