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 Several months ago, the beautiful singing voice of Christian Guardino earned this 17-year-old teenage boy an appearance on the television show “America’s Got Talent”. Guardino was visually impaired from birth, but now he can see after undergoing gene therapy treatment for his inherited visual impairment. Guardino inherited a visual disorder called Leber Congenital Amaurosis, or LCA. People with this defect lack a protein essential to the retina, the innermost layer of tissue of the eye, which is composed of a large number of light-sensitive cone and rod nerve cells. It is the area responsible for receiving light or images and sending signals to the brain to help us see and understand what we see. […]

It has long been known that exercise reduces the incidence of certain cancers, especially breast cancer. Danish scientists found that blood from women after 2 hours of exercise contained substances that inhibited the growth of breast cancer in vitro.    Read more

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 Cytogenetics is formed by combining two words: Cyto (relating to cells) and genetics (relating to genetic variation). In Thai, some people use the term เซลล์พันธุศาสตร์ instead of cytogenetics, and the term อณูพันธุศาสตร์ instead of molecular genetics, which is the field concerned with DNA, RNA, and proteins. Cytogenetics is the field that studies the chromosomes within cells, including chromosome structure, chromosomal abnormalities, and chromosome function.

  “Leukemia”, or “lukemia”, is an abnormality arising from the bone marrow. “Blood” contains 3 types of blood cells: red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. In greater detail, blood cells that have matured can perform their functions…“Red blood cells function to capture oxygen from the lungs and deliver it to various parts of the body; white blood cells function like soldiers…fighting and defending; and platelets stop bleeding when bleeding occurs.” Prof. Dr. Surapol Issaragrisil, Senior Director of the Bangkok Hematology Center, Wattanosoth Hospital, says that normally all three types of blood cells are produced in a factory located in the bone marrow. […]

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  i(17)(q10) In this case as well, the patient has only a single short arm of chromosome 17, but has three long arms of chromosome 17 together. This abnormality is often found in CML or CML blastic crisis, and is a common abnormality during the period when the disease progresses from CML to blastic crisis, but it can also be found as a sole abnormality in AML and […]

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