Medical genetics

On 4th of February, the World Cancer Day, oncologists from the Northern Bulgarian city of Rousse commented on the benefits of genetic testing and personalised therapy, reports BNT. 

The Muscular Dystrophy Association of Greece has organized a special event at the Technopolis complex to mark Duchenne Awareness Day on Friday, September 7.

For the first time, scientists have tried to edit a gene inside a person's body, in an effort to cure disease, reported The Independent.

On Monday, 44-year-old Brian Madeux - who has a metabolic disease called Hunter syndrome - received billions of copies of a corrective gene through an IV, along with a tool to cut his DNA in the relevant location.

Turkey's Health Ministry has sent a letter to the Social Security Institution (SGK), the government's health insurance scheme, to cover all medical expenses for 114 spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) patients in the country, after an 8-month-old baby died due to a lack of financial means, according to daily Habertürk.

An 8-month-old baby with a fatal disease died in the Marmara province of Sakarya on May 22 after a campaign to raise money for the infant's treatment failed to raise enough funds, Doğan News Agency has reported.
  
The boy, Eymen Çapkın, was born with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a genetic disease affecting the part of the nervous system that controls voluntary muscle movement.

Researchers have pinpointed 83 genetic variants that could affect the height of a person. The group, led by the distinguished Greek genetics professor Panos Deloukas of the Queen Mary University and William Harvey Research Institute, published their findings in ‘Nature” magazine.