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Claim Of CRISPR'ed Baby Girls Stuns Genome Editing Summit
STAT | A researcher's claim that he used genome editing to alter DNA of human embryos, resulting in the birth a few weeks ago of twin girls, stunned scientists.
Nov 26, 2018
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Single-Cell Sequencing Is Opening Up New Avenues For Potential Treatments
STAT | By quickly analyzing thousands - even millions - of cells, it's now possible to visualize the specific cellular culprits for any given disease.
Nov 21, 2018
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Researchers Assemble Pan-Genome From 910 Humans Of African Descent Using Deep Sequencing
Bio-IT World | Researchers from Johns Hopkins University and other institutions recently conducted a study that used a deeply sequenced dataset of over 900 individuals of African descent to construct a set of DNA sequences that is missing from the current reference human genome.
Nov 20, 2018
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Data Science Foundation: Findable, Accessible Data
Bio-IT World | Adam Margolin, the new Director of the Icahn Institute for Data Science & Genomic Technology, says the most foundational aspect of data science is not number crunching, but actually finding to data. If we could integrate data coming out of all of our molecular profiling studies, for instance, Margolin says, it would revolutionize our ability to understand patients.
Nov 19, 2018
