Pre-eclampsia

E Dimitriadis, DL Rolnik, W Zhou… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2023 - nature.com
Pre-eclampsia is a life-threatening disease of pregnancy unique to humans and a leading
cause of maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality. Women who survive pre-eclampsia …

Liquid Biopsy Based on Cell-Free DNA and RNA

C Loy, L Ahmann, I De Vlaminck… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
This review delves into the rapidly evolving landscape of liquid biopsy technologies based
on cell-free DNA (cfDNA) and cell-free RNA (cfRNA) and their increasingly prominent role in …

Cis P-tau is a central circulating and placental etiologic driver and therapeutic target of preeclampsia

S Jash, S Banerjee, S Cheng, B Wang, C Qiu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Preeclampsia (PE) is the leading cause of maternal and fetal mortality globally and may
trigger dementia later in life in mothers and their offspring. However, the etiological drivers …

Profiling of repetitive RNA sequences in the blood plasma of patients with cancer

RE Reggiardo, SV Maroli, V Peddu… - Nature Biomedical …, 2023 - nature.com
Liquid biopsies provide a means for the profiling of cell-free RNAs secreted by cells
throughout the body. Although well-annotated coding and non-coding transcripts in blood …

Genome-wide association study of placental weight identifies distinct and shared genetic influences between placental and fetal growth

RN Beaumont, C Flatley, M Vaudel, X Wu, J Chen… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
A well-functioning placenta is essential for fetal and maternal health throughout pregnancy.
Using placental weight as a proxy for placental growth, we report genome-wide association …

Noncanonical HPV carcinogenesis drives radiosensitization of head and neck tumors

TP Schrank, A Kothari, WH Weir… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
We analyzed transcriptional data from 104 HPV+ (Human papillomavirus) HNSCC (head
and neck squamous cell carcinoma) tumors together with two publicly available sources to …

Current challenges and best practices for cell-free long RNA biomarker discovery

L Cabús, J Lagarde, J Curado, E Lizano… - Biomarker …, 2022 - Springer
The analysis of biomarkers in biological fluids, also known as liquid biopsies, is seen with
great potential to diagnose complex diseases such as cancer with a high sensitivity and …

Defects in placental syncytiotrophoblast cells are a common cause of developmental heart disease

BN Radford, X Zhao, T Glazer, M Eaton… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Placental abnormalities have been sporadically implicated as a source of developmental
heart defects. Yet it remains unknown how often the placenta is at the root of congenital …

Delivery technologies for women's health applications

KL Swingle, AS Ricciardi, WH Peranteau… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The treatment of women's health-related conditions, including reproductive tract and
pregnancy disorders, faces distinct challenges and microenvironments, such as the vaginal …

[HTML][HTML] Apicobasal RNA asymmetries regulate cell fate in the early mouse embryo

A Hawdon, ND Geoghegan, M Mohenska… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The spatial sorting of RNA transcripts is fundamental for the refinement of gene expression
to distinct subcellular regions. Although, in non-mammalian early embryogenesis …