Professor Saw Wai Hla's groundbreaking atomic-scale imaging research, recognized by the DOE and prestigious awards, advances understanding and manipulation of rare earth elements critical to modern ...

Use of a clinician-facing dashboard combined with a best practice alert helped increase rates of HLA-B*58:01 genetic testing among patients prescribed allopurinol.

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“Since the discovery of transplantation as a life-saving therapy for blood malignancies by Dr. E Donnall Thomas, there have been major advances that have significantly lowered the side effects and ...

Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) typing is important in organ transplantation protocols, as they determine the likelihood of rejection. The HLA system is little understood, however. In simple terms, the ...

It is the strength of these associations, and potential involvement in the immune reaction, that has seen these alleles suggested as candidates for pharmacogenetic testing either as predictive or ...