A new tool which makes it possible to extract information about an individual's health from genotypes in a fraction of a second, has just been developed.
... in mass vaccination campaigns. The study's findings contributed to a 2007 WHO recommendation that a fractional dosing strategy be utilized in the event of severe vaccine shortages during a meningitis ...
... Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics. "We previously had not determined the optimal dose of fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy for acoustic neuromas," said David W. Andrews, M.D., ...
... University of Tübingen in Germany, scanned the brains of adult participants as they watched fractions flashed on a screen. The researchers used a technique called functional MRI adaptation (fMRA) to ...
... analysis of 58 patients with optic nerve sheath meningiomas who were treated with fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy between 1996 and 2006. They reviewed patient charts for technical radiotherapy ...
... , are resistant to standard chemotherapy. Tumors treated with lapatinib, which inhibits a pathway important for self-renewal, retained a smaller fraction of these tumorigenic cells after therapy.
... of the common genetic variation among individuals and between populations, and may account for a significant fraction of disease. While previous work has identified structural variation in the human ...
... galaxies we see today.”
The galaxies, each only 5,000 light-years across, are a fraction of the size of today's “grownup” galaxies but contain approximately the same number of stars. Each could fit ...
... failure patients with different ejection fractions. Ejection fraction is a common measure of heart function ... among heart failure patients with ejection fractions above and below 30, showing that while ...
... metal structures, and not damage other parts of the chip. The structures need to be melted for only a fraction of a millionth of a second, because molten metal and semiconductors can flow as easily ...
... evaluate multiple custom antennas in numerous configurations in realistic tag environments for only a fraction of the time and cost of previous methods.”
Testing multiple configurations is important ...
... the eye. More than 140 genes have been linked to these diseases, which only account for a fraction of the cases.
“We have many types of retinal degeneration and not enough mutations to explain them,” ...
... contains about one tenth of the total carbon stored in land ecosystems and recycles a large fraction of the rainfall that falls upon it. So any major change to its vegetation, brought about by events ...
... are credited for their computer time.
"Long-term, I'm hoping that we can get a significant fraction of the world's population engaged in solving critical problems in world health, and doing it ...
... circumcision, and that reducing multiple sexual partnerships would probably garner only a small fraction of “community mobilization and mass media,” “workplace” or other HIV prevention investments.
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