They found a genetic mutation that seemed to indicate a bone marrow transplant was necessary.
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Resistance can arise due to a genetic mutation in bacteria which are normally susceptible to antibiotics.
But those changes are not passed on indefinitely, like a successful genetic mutation would be.
Its researchers are studying families with a genetic mutation that triggers the early onset of Alzheimer's.
For instance, some people, who have a particular genetic mutation, are immune to infection.
Both drugs are being tested in patients who have two copies of a genetic mutation called F508del.
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For example, a genetic mutation can identify patients who are susceptible to a given disease or treatment.
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But when she was hospitalized recently with abdominal pain, Katie kept her genetic mutation a secret from her doctors.
Children with the disease have a genetic mutation that causes them to produce the protein progerin, which blocks normal cell function.
This, some scientists believe, leads to new illnesses formed by genetic mutation crossing the species barrier and entering the human population.
Mayo itself, BIO pointed out, has licensed a test for a genetic mutation that predicts side-effects for a certain colon-cancer drug.
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This, some scientists believe, leads to new diseases formed by genetic mutation crossing the species barrier and entering the human population.
On average, every child is born with one brand new genetic mutation.
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Researchers in Iceland identified a rare genetic mutation that slows the activity of an enzyme called beta secretase, which is required to produce amyloid-beta.
Scientists have found that the genetic mutation which renders codeine ineffective is much more common among northern Europeans, than those who hail from the Mediterranean.
Specifically, carriers of the BRAC2 genetic mutation were almost seven times as likely to develop throat (pharyngeal) cancer and eight times as likely to develop pancreatic cancer.
Any individual who had a genetic mutation that lightened his or her skin (and eyes) would absorb more sunlight, boosting health and the ability to survive and breed.
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An airplane crash does not have the possibility of the continued risk of killing people by radioactive contamination or genetic mutation decades or even permanently into the future.
In the 1950s Anthony Allison, a British biochemist, observed that Africans who carry a single copy of the genetic mutation that causes sickle-cell anaemia are protected against malaria.
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Both of these drugs are emblematic of avant-garde, precise, individualized medicine in which a specific genetic mutation in a patient is matched up with the action of the drug.
The medicine, code named VX-770, has been shown to work only in patients with a particular genetic mutation, called G551D, which is present in only 4% of CF patients.
Doctors are treating Nicola's mother, her three brothers, her sister and her nephew for Osteogenesis Imperfecta - or OI - a genetic mutation which gives the sufferer frail bones.
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Vertex already sells a drug called Kalydeco, which causes unprecedented improvements in the lung function of patients with cystic fibrosis if it is caused by a genetic mutation called G551D.
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The widely publicized patient, Timothy Brown, was treated for leukemia with a bone marrow transplant that happened to come from a donor with a genetic mutation that makes immune cells resist HIV infection.
But there is a genetic mutation that nearly always predicts early onset Alzheimer's, a rare version of the disease that develops in people ages 30 to 60, according to the National Institute on Aging.
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As 11 of the 24 men with prostate cancer had died, the authors suggest that early radical treatment for the disease might be offered to men who carry the genetic mutation, rather than watchful waiting, which is common policy.
Again, there will be experts on hand to tell the leaders about rising resistance to antibiotics, about the way a hyperconnected world can quickly spread pandemics, or about concerns about how it is foolhardy to be complacent in a world where genetic mutation often outpaces human innovation.
The second thing the team did was to introduce a genetic mutation into the genome of the young egg that allowed for the production of a growth factor, a kind of protein, that can only come from the paternal genome but is vital for normal embryonic development.
First, when a new copy of copia inserts itself into a fly's genetic material, it may cause a deleterious mutation to a previously healthy gene (hence all the copia-related mutations detected by geneticists).
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