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Researchers at the University of Chicago have developed a more sensitive liquid biopsy test that uses RNA instead of DNA for detecting cancer. Using blood samples from patients with colorectal cancer, the test was able to detect the earliest stages of the disease with 95% accuracy, vastly improving on current, commercially available, non-invasive testing methods.
Dr. Michael C. Oldham's innovative gene coexpression analysis methods have transformed our understanding of brain cell diversity. His work spans from mapping cellular signatures in healthy brains to identifying therapeutic targets in gliomas, while addressing critical challenges in research reproducibility.
Researchers from the UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center have received a $3.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study and develop treatments for mpox.
Although only a handful of cases from a new, more infectious strain of mpox have been reported in the U.S. so far, primarily in travelers, experts say the virus is rapidly evolving in ways that could eventually make it far more dangerous and widespread.
With this new grant, the UCLA-led team will work toward three goals:
Understanding how mpox virus spreads and causes injury within skin and eye tissue through studies using human stem cell-based models.
Identifying the genetic mutations that are making newer strains of mpox virus more infectious and lethal.
Developing new classes of antiviral drugs to treat mpox infection and stop viral transmission.