Julia Karow

3 weeks ago | 360dx.com | Julia Karow

NEW YORK – As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention started to slash its workforce on Tuesday, a laboratory that appears to be at the center of its mission — containing disease epidemics and outbreaks — was eliminated: the viral hepatitis laboratory.

Jun 25, 2024 | 360dx.com | Julia Karow

MADRID – The Generation Study, a newborn genomics research project run by Genomics England in partnership with the UK's National Health Service, has enrolled its first families and plans to continue its phased rollout throughout the year. At the Association for Molecular Pathology's AMP Europe 2024 meeting here on Monday, Amanda Pichini, clinical director at Genomics England and a genetic counselor, provided an update on the study, which plans to screen 100,000 newborns by genome sequencing.

Jun 20, 2024 | 360dx.com | Julia Karow

NEW YORK – Following the start of the European soccer championship in Germany last week, the country is preparing to kick off another large endeavor next month: its national pilot project for genomics-guided precision medicine.

Jun 4, 2024 | precisionmedicineonline.com | Julia Karow

BERLIN – A neoantigen vaccine was able to prevent cancer in a subset of Lynch syndrome patients who mounted a T-cell response to one of the neoantigens, increasing their chance of remaining disease-free over 10 years, according to results from a small clinical trial in the Netherlands.

Jun 3, 2024 | 360dx.com | Julia Karow

BERLIN – Short-read whole-genome sequencing has already led to diagnoses for dozens of families with rare diseases who had remained undiagnosed after exome sequencing, and there will likely be more cases solved with further interpretation of the data, according to results presented here on Sunday at the European Human Genetics Conference.