by Gabbie Nadeau | Mar 21, 2022 | Research News, Uncategorized
Asmita Mistry, M.A. CCC-SLP, Speech Language Pathologist, is currently a doctoral student at Kean University in New Jersey. She is conducting a survey study on selective mutism in individuals aged 4 to 25 years. Selective mutism is characterized by the inability to...
by Gabbie Nadeau | Sep 29, 2021 | Research News
Children’s National Hospital’s AI enables rapid genetic screening. Artificial intelligence (AI) machine learning is increasingly being used as a diagnostic tool for health care, biotechnology research, medical care, and life sciences. A new study published today in...
by Gabbie Nadeau | Jan 14, 2021 | Research News
Abstract The aim of this study was to evaluate bone health and body composition by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) in individuals with Cornelia de Lange Syndrome (CdLS). Overall, nine individuals with CdLS (five females, all Caucasian, aged 5–38 years) were...
by Gabbie Nadeau | Feb 28, 2020 | Research News
Philadelphia, February 26, 2020 – The Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center (RIMGC) at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) launched in 2014 as a first-of-its-kind system to help families navigate the complex process of genetic and genomic...
by Gabbie Nadeau | Jun 24, 2019 | Research News
The U.K. will pay for children with mysterious rare disorders and their parents to have their entire genomes sequenced — Canadian scientists want the same The U.K. is rolling out a program in which all seriously ill children without a diagnosis will be able to get...
by Gabbie Nadeau | Jun 24, 2019 | Research News
by The Spanish National Cancer Research Centre Two mouse embryonic stem cells in which two Polycomb regions from different chromosomes (HoxC, green; HoxD, red) appear next to each other (arrows). Cohesin-SA2 promotes this type of contacts between distant Polycomb...
by Gabbie Nadeau | Apr 16, 2019 | Research News
A new blood test called EpiSign may help identify complex and hard-to-diagnose genomic imprinting disorders such as Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS). EpiSign, available in two versions, can diagnose 19 complex disorders. This newly available diagnostic tool, which...
by Gabbie Nadeau | Jan 16, 2019 | Research News
LCDR Michael J. Eliason, MD, USN; LCDR Jonathan M. Melzer, MD, USN; CDR Thomas Q. Gallagher, DO, USN Abstract Cornelia de Lange Syndrome (CdLS) can be expressed in multiple organ systems requiring a variety of specialists, including pediatric otolaryngology. We...
by Gabbie Nadeau | Jan 16, 2019 | Research News
A deep-learning algorithm is helping doctors and researchers to pinpoint a range of rare genetic disorders by analysing pictures of people’s faces. In a paper1 published on 7 January in Nature Medicine, researchers describe the technology behind the diagnostic aid, a...
by Gabbie Nadeau | Jan 16, 2019 | Research News
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