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Health
A 1-in-27,000 Finding: Newborn Blood Spots Could Reveal Childhood Cancer Risk
A Michigan study found cancer-risk gene variants in 6.8% of children who later developed tumours, strengthening the case...
Agriculture
Machine Learning Reads Genetic Neighborhoods to Flag Harmful Poultry E. cecorum
Arkansas researchers used machine learning to read gene order, not just gene presence, and separated disease-causing E. ...
Health
NIH Appoints Genomics Pioneer Judy Cho to Lead National Human Genome Research Institute
Dr. Judy Cho, a translational geneticist known for pioneering IBD genomic discoveries, will head NIH's $660M National Hu...
Health
Falling Sequencing Costs and AI Propel Genomics into Mainstream Medicine
Plummeting genome sequencing costs and advances in bioinformatics are enabling early cancer detection and personalised t...
Technology
Craig Venter, the Scientist Who Redefined Life, Has Died
The maverick who raced to map the human genome and showed that a cell could be built from synthetic DNA leaves a legacy ...