August 13, 2019 – A very significant research article by the title “Allele specific repair of splicing mutations in cystic fibrosis through AsCas12a genome editing” has just appeared in the open access Journal Nature Communications. This work provide hope to patients with …

Cystic fibrosis: CFTR-gene editing may cure this genetic disease Read more »

January 13, 2018 – The American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just approved the first treatment for breast cancer with a certain inherited genetic mutation. At first glance, this announcement may be just one in the series of announcements by the …

Olaparib Tablets (Lynparza): For breast cancer with BRCA gene mutation Read more »

August 07, 2017 – Humans become reparable like a broken car in the body shop: For the first time, scientists have corrected a disease-causing mutation in early stage human embryos with gene editing (or genome editing). By doing so, researchers …

Body shop: First repair of single-gene mutation in human embryos Read more »

September 04, 2016 – Case Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers, a research collaboration which includes University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center and Case Western Reserve University, who last year identified new gene mutations unique to colon cancers in African Americans, have found that …

Adverse clinical outcome associated with mutations in colorectal cancers of African Americans Read more »

June 03, 2016 – This is a huge step in the application of theragenomic medicine in cancer patients in the quest to deliver highly individualized health care for patients. Thus, on June 01, the American Food & Drug Administration (FDA) approved the …

This is it: First blood test to detect EGFR gene mutations in NSCLC Read more »