Research Involving Indian-origin Scientist Shows How Seawater Offers Clues To Human Disease

Seawater could shed light on human disease, a study involving an Indian-origin researcher has demonstrated.

By analyzing genomes of a tiny, single-celled marine animal, they have demonstrated a possible way to address diverse questions such as how diseased cells differ from neighboring healthy cells.

Faster and Cheaper Genome Sequencing Could Rapidly Improve Cancer Care
Genome-sequencing is getting cheaper and faster, and can eliminate the guesswork in treating cancer by offering personalized clues on how to best attack tumors, US doctors said on Tuesday.

Debashish Bhattacharya, professor of ecology, evolution and natural resources in Rutgers' School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, and Ramunas Stepanauskas and Hwan Su Yoon of the Bigelow Laboratory of Ocean Sciences, used sophisticated new technologies to sequence the genomes of individual picobilophytes, tiny microbes first discovered in 2007.

"If we can peer inside the genome of a single cell and reconstruct its history, we can do that for many cells and figure out their interactions with other cells in the environment," Bhattacharya said.

"For example, why do different cancer cells from the same tumor grow at different rates? Their genomes might contain the answer, and the answer might lead to more effective treatment strategies," he added.

Whole Genome Sequencing of Skin Cancer
The landscape of the melanoma genome, the DNA code of the deadliest form of skin cancer has been systematically studied by a team of scientists at the National Institutes of Health.

The study has been published in the journal Science.

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Stanford Scientists Test for Traces of Donor's Genome To Better Detect Heart Transplant Rejections
STANFORD, Calif. — Heart transplant recipients and their physicians are likely more concerned with the function of the donated organ than with the donor's DNA sequences that tag along

New Insights Garnered from First Look at the Full Multiple Myeloma Genome
The most comprehensive picture to date of the full genetic blueprint of multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer, has been unveiled by scientists.