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and identify mutations that might be causing the undiagnosed diseases that afflict his clients families.
Ingenuity Systems in Redwood City, California, allows users to upload a list of mutations in a person s genome,
#A new way to model cancer Sequencing the genomes of tumor cells has revealed thousands of mutations associated with cancer.
One way to discover the role of these mutations is breed to a strain of mice that carry the genetic flaw
They have shown that a gene-editing system called CRISPR can introduce cancer-causing mutations into the livers of adult mice enabling scientists to screen these mutations much more quickly.
They are now working on ways to deliver the necessary CRISPR components to other organs allowing them to investigate mutations found in other types of cancer.
Previous studies have shown that genetically engineered mice with mutations in both of those genes will develop cancer within a few months.
which requires introducing mutations into embryonic stem cells can take more than a year and costs hundreds of thousands of dollars.
if additional mutations occur later on. To create this model the researchers had to cut out the normal version of the gene
when the mosquitoes mate, their young carry a mutation that kills them before theye able to reproduce
Developing preemptive strategies while the drugs are still in the design phase will give scientists a head start on the next line of compounds that will be effective despite the germ's resistance mutations.
Until now scientists trying to predict the genetic changes that would enable a bacterium to evade a particular drug have had to look up possible mutations from libraries of resistance mutations that have been observed previously.
With a new drug there is always the possibility that the organism will develop different mutations that had never been seen before.
Will they be the same old mutations we've seen before or might the bacteria do new things instead?
From a ranked list of possible mutations the researchers zeroed in on four tiny differences known as single nucleotide polymorphisms
Though none of the mutations they identified had been reported previously experiments with live bacteria in the lab showed their predictions were right.
When the scientists treated MRSA with the new drugs and sequenced the bacteria that survived more than half of the surviving colonies carried the predicted mutation that conferred the greatest resistance--a tiny change that reduced the drugs'effectiveness by 58-fold.
The fact that we actually found the new predicted mutations in bacteria is very exciting Donald said.
The researchers are now using their algorithm to predict resistance mutations to other drugs designed to combat pathogens like E coli and Enterococcus.
We might even be able to coax a pathogen into developing mutations that enable it to evade one drug
Their computational approach could be especially useful for forecasting drug resistance mutations in other diseases such as cancer HIV
#DNA mutations get harder to hide Rice university researchers have developed a method to detect rare DNA mutations with an approach hundreds of times more powerful than current methods.
The ability to accurately find mutations that are biomarkers for disease will help clinicians determine treatment paths for patients,
It may also help identify rare mutations and subtypes of infectious diseases as well as drug-resistant strains.
but mutations can leave the body vulnerable to disease, or even be the root cause.
The ability to accurately find rare single-nucleotide mutations is becoming increasingly important as scientists drill down into genomes to find biomarkers for early cancer detection. ee trying to solve the needle-in-a-haystack problem,
how do you detect a very rare mutation in a large pile of healthy DNA molecules?
The needle youe looking for might be a cancer-mutation DNA or bacterial-pathogen DNA,
and leave the probes to seek out mutations in the target DNA. Zhang and Wang carried this hybridization technique a step further as they determined the optimal conditions the window for each experiment, based on simulations.
especially if youe doing a multiplexed assay that checks for a few hundred different target mutations. he real benefit is still being able to do more specific detection,
basically being able to detect mutations at a much earlier phase when there not as much cancer DNA floating around,
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