"All the common cancers are being investigated." Scientists from the National Human Genome Research Institute and Lund University in Sweden reported in the 1 June 2001 issue of Nature Medicine that they used
genetic profiling to distinguish four childhood cancers that look similar under a microscope: neuroblastoma, rhabdomyosarcoma, non-Hodgkin lymphoma (Burkitt lymphoma), and Ewing sarcoma.
THANK goodness the idea of
genetic profiling by insurance companies is to be curbed.
Health Secretary Alan Milburn will use a keynote speech this Thursday to make clear his view that the use of
genetic profiling should not be allowed to deny people essentials like insurance cover.
EXACT's loss of heterozygosity technology permits rapid automated
genetic profiling by eliminating current gel-based methods.
"While we may be able to steer patients away from certain environmental hazards, we don't want to use
genetic profiling as a means of job discrimination or denial of insurance coverage.
Genetic profiling performed on eight of these women identified a clustering of genes that decreases apoptosis and increases DNA repair.
This form of
genetic profiling - also called pharmacogenetics - makes economic sense too.