Search Results < Yale School of Medicine

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Genome analysis helps keep deadly brain cancer at bay for five years
An analysis of a patient’s deadly brain tumor helped doctors at Smilow Cancer Hospital identify new emerging mutations and keep a 55-year old woman alive for more than five years, researchers report in the journal Genome Medicine.
14 Feb 2017
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Researchers find genes behind aggressive ovarian and endometrial cancers
In a major breakthrough for ovarian and uterine cancers, Yale researchers have defined the genetic landscape of rare, highly aggressive tumors called carcinosarcomas (CSs), pointing the way to possible new treatments.
10 Oct 2016
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Genomic characterization of sarcomatoid transformation in clear cell renal cell carcinoma.
Parts of clear cell renal cell carcinomas (ccRCCs) sometimes have histologic features characteristic of a sarcoma.
Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America PNAS, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
22 Feb 2016
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Genetic mutations at conception linked to many cases of autism
About 15 percent of autism cases in families with a single autistic child are associated with spontaneous mutations that occur in sex cells, Yale University researchers report in the April 4 issue of the journal Nature.
4 Apr 2012
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Yale Researchers Unravel Mystery of Brain Aneurysms
Yale researchers have taken the first critical steps in unraveling the mysteries of brain aneurysms, the often fatal rupturing of blood vessels that afflicts 500,000 people worldwide each year and nearly killed Vice President-elect Joseph Biden two decades ago.
8 Nov 2008