Position Description: The Jawaheer Lab at the Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI) is looking for a highly motivated and creative postdoctoral fellow to study gene expression before, during and after pregnancy among healthy women and women with rheumatoid arthritis ...
Read More »Type I interferons (IFNs) may play a role in the natural improvement of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) during pregnancy, RNA-Seq study suggests
Specialty Pharmacy Times – by Lauren Santye – Type I interferons (IFNs) may play a role in the natural improvement of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) during pregnancy, new findings suggest. In the United States, an estimated 1.5 million individuals are living with RA. Many ...
Read More »RNA Sequencing identifies three new candidate genes in RA pathogenesis
Through integration of RNA-sequencing data with association study findings, researchers identified ERBB2, TP53 and THOP1 as new candidate genes in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis. In the blood cells of five patients newly diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), seven patients ...
Read More »Researchers use RNA-Seq to uncover gene expression markers that predict drug-specific response
Three gene expression signatures can help rheumatologists predict which patients are more likely to respond to tumor necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFi) or B-cell depletion therapies in patients with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis, according to new research findings presented this ...
Read More »Featured RNA-Seq Job – Senior Bioinformatician
SENIOR BIOINFORMATICIAN / 40 HOURS / DAY / BWH – GENETICS – (3022854) GENERAL SUMMARY/ OVERVIEW STATEMENT: This position will work with the NIH funded Accelerating Medicines Partnership, which brings high-level government, industry and non-profit foundation partners together to identify and validate ...
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