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Clinical Research
This study evaluates patients with inherited metabolic disorders and related medical complications.
… Venditti's review of the laboratory data; residing in a hospital; any patient who requires dialysis once or more/week …
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Researchers have now identified and catalogued more species - nearly 200 new bacteria and thousands of viruses - that reside on the human skin than has ever been possible, largely due to advances in bioinformatics and laboratory techniques.
… how skin microbiome changes over time. These previously acquired skin samples had been sequenced using shotgun …
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A repurposed cancer drug appears to reduce the severity of lesions and pain experienced by people with Proteus syndrome
Genetic Disorders
Thalassemia is a group of inherited diseases of the blood that affect a person's ability to produce hemoglobin, resulting in anemia.
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NIH researchers have uncovered a key factor in understanding the elevated cancer risk associated with gene therapy.
Staff
Dr. Bettie Graham was the division director for NHGRI's Division of Extramural Operations.
The Genomics Landscape
In the February 3, 2022 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director, Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., reflects on the December 2021 NHGRI symposium's success in confronting the difficult pasts of eugenics and scientific racism.
The Genomics Landscape
In the July 2020 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green recalls the White House event announcing the draft human genome sequence.
… standards First molecular profiles of severe COVID-19 infections NIH-funded study to evaluate drugs prescribed to … have prevented hundreds of millions of coronavirus infections Experts identify steps to expand and improve …
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Researchers at the National Institutes of Health and their colleagues have identified genomic variants that cause a rare and severe inflammatory skin disorder, known as disabling pansclerotic morphea, and have found a potential treatment.
… The STAT4 protein not only plays a role in fighting infections but also controls important aspects of …
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Over the last 20 years, three families have been unknowingly linked to one another by an unknown illness. Researchers at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and other organizations have now identified the cause of the illness, a new disease called CRIA syndrome. The results of their work were published on Dec. 11 in the journal Nature.
… seen at the NIH Clinical Center, researchers looked for infections and cancer as the cause. After those were ruled …