the glocalized network in theragenomic and personalized medicine and the genetics of individual patients safety of drugs
December 30, 2024 – Transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis (TTR-CA) is now increasingly becoming recognized as an important cause of heart failure, and some studies have shown that as much as a third of diastolic heart failure could be attributed to TTR-CA. …
Uneven burden of cardiac amyloidosis in people of African descent Read more »
December 15 2024 – Eighty-seven years after launching the National Cancer Act in the United Stated with the intention of a national combat against cancer, and despite despite significant progress, cancer treatment often falls short, with 50% to 80% of …
Predictive Score: Genetics behind anti-cancer drug resistance Read more »
November 12, 2024 – The duration of human life (longevity) is influenced by genetics, the environment, and lifestyle. Environmental improvements beginning in the 1900s extended the average life span dramatically with significant improvements in the availability of food and clean …
August 04, 2023 – We at thasso recently had an article (blog) on the much discussed and recently throughout the social media as wonder compound (drug) for weight loss promoted active ingredient Semaglutide in the form of the newly marketed product …
Is there living pharmacogenovigilance behind Semaglutide drugs? Read more »
July 20, 2023 – The SARS-CoV-2 virus has changed the lives of millions and millions of individuals worldwide. It has also changed the behaviour of the society as a whole with respect to more aggressive and less tolerant behaviour of …
Separating falsehoods from facts: Long Covid and Vaccines Read more »
01 May, 2023 – SARS-CoV-2, like other respiratory viruses, typically initiates infection in the throat and sinuses. But it often spreads from the respiratory tract to other parts of the body, such as the gut, liver, heart, kidneys, brain, blood …
Study identifies human genes enabling SARS-CoV-2 infection Read more »
November 20, 2022 – The genetics of drug side-effects. Some 95% of people have a gene variant that affects their response to at least one drug. Treating physicians, clinical researchers, and affected patients know all to well the serious problems that …
Is there pre-emptive genotyping to avoid adverse drug effects (ADRs)? Read more »
November 10, 2022 – Drug addiction is a huge social problem of our todays societies. The problem does not only exist in the USA, but in other countries worldwide as well, with enormous numbers of victims due to alcoholism, smoking, …
October 21, 2022 – Why we want to drink (possibly too much)? And what has that to do with our genes, and why it matters for our alcohol risk? These are some of the question coming out of a recent …
Why we want to drink: Are there genes behind it? Read more »
September 25, 2022 – Nearly 2000 years ago the Roman scholar and natural philosopher Pliny the Elder wrote in his Natural History: “Ex Africa surgit semper aliquid novi” (from Africa there is always something new). This quote beautifully applies to …