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The new algorithm, described in this week's @PNASNews, can use ancient DNA to track the mobility of human populations in the past
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The new algorithm, described in this week's PNAS, can use ancient DNA to track the mobility of human populations in the past.
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Researchers unravel the genetic mechanisms of fingerprint formation, reports @TheScientistLLC
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A Las Vegas-based team examines in @JAMANetworkOpen the effect of visitors and tourists on wastewater-based surveillance of SARS-CoV-2
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A Las Vegas-based team examines in JAMA Network Open the effect of visitors and tourists on wastewater-based surveillance of SARS-CoV-2.
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Amidst its ongoing war with Ukraine, Russia has increased scientific collaborations with India and China, @Nature finds
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An analysis in @CurrentBiology of ancient Yersinia pestis shows that the plague-causing bacterium was introduced in waves into medieval Denmark
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An analysis in Current Biology of ancient Yersinia pestis shows that the plague-causing bacterium was introduced in waves into medieval Denmark.
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Moderna shells out $400 million to pay the NIH for a government funded technique it used in its COVID-19 vaccine shot, reports @nytimes
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Moderna has paid $400 million to the government for a chemical technique key to its vaccine. But the parties are still locked in a high-stakes dispute over a different patent.
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. @Nature feature explores the state of research linking the brain to immune function, inflammation, and conditions ranging from heart disease to autoimmune conditions or cancer recovery
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Researchers use single-nucleotide sequencing and mass spec to map alkylation-derived DNA adducts in a lung cancer cell line exposed to benzo(a)pyrene in @ACSCentSci
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Researchers use single-nucleotide sequencing and mass spec to map alkylation-derived DNA adducts in a lung cancer cell line exposed to benzo(a)pyrene in ACS Central Science.
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Stanford University biochemist Paul Berg, a recombinant DNA pioneer and Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, is remembered in @nytimes
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In 1971, he transferred material from one organism to another, creating the first recombinant DNA, or rDNA. He later helped lead a historic effort to write protocols for genetic research.
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Researchers in @alzassociation journal linked obesity-related measurements such as body mass index and waist-to-hip ratio to increased or diminished expression of 21 Alzheimer's-associated genes
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Researchers in Alzheimer's & Dementia linked obesity-related measurements such as body mass index and waist-to-hip ratio to increased or diminished expression of 21 Alzheimer's-associated genes.
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. @ScienceMagazine reports on a research team using induced pluripotent stem cells from adult bats to understand how bat species dodge diseases associated with the many viruses they carry
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Research team hits on formula to create stem cells from tissue of adult
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Researchers develop, validate, and test a haplotype-based artificial intelligence model for identifying SARS-CoV-2 variants, mutations, and variant mixtures in @JAMANetworkOpen
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Researchers develop, validate, and test a haplotype-based artificial intelligence model for identifying SARS-CoV-2 variants, mutations, and variant mixtures in JAMA Network Open.
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A particularly deadly and dangerous version of monkeypox, or mpox, has been found in immunosuppressed individuals with advanced HIV, @guardian notes, prompting calls for increased testing
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Form of virus, formerly known as monkeypox, fatal in about 15% of cases among immunosuppressed people
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. @voxdotcom looks at pandemic-related learning loss, children's mental health, and what comes next for children and teens who fell behind when schooling moved online
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Using nanopore sequencing, researchers profile the germline structural variant breakpoints, unbalanced SVs, and allelic heterogeneity in several breast cancer risk genes in the @ejhg_journal
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Using nanopore sequencing, researchers profile the germline structural variant breakpoints, unbalanced SVs, and allelic heterogeneity in several breast cancer risk genes in the European Journal of...
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. @NPR's Goats and Soda profiles a nurse from rural Guatemala who is part of a local clinic and laboratory focused on active surveillance for emerging and established infectious diseases
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Neudy Rojop made a girlhood pledge. When family members fell ill, she says she decided to become a nurse "so I could change my community for good."
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With data from hundreds of prior studies, researchers explore genetic ties between neurodevelopmental conditions and with disruptive, impulse control and conduct disorders in @NatureHumBehav
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With data from hundreds of prior studies, researchers explore genetic ties between neurodevelopmental conditions and with disruptive, impulse control and conduct disorders in Nature Human Behaviour.
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. @guardian says University of Oxford mathematical biology professor Dame Angela McLean will become UK's first female chief scientific advisor, starting in April
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Professor of mathematical biology to succeed Sir Patrick Vallance after advising MoD and working with Sage during pandemic
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Researchers in @PNASNews find two repeat-rich proteins that are sometimes expressed from the mammalian telomeric RNA TERRA, particularly when telomere problems are present
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Researchers in PNAS find two repeat-rich proteins that are sometimes expressed from the mammalian telomeric RNA TERRA, particularly when telomere problems are present.
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A previously HIV-positive patient treated with HIV-resistant donor stem cells has been free of the disease since 2018, without the need for antiretroviral therapy, @Nature reports
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Nature - But the risks associated with the procedure mean it is unlikely to be used widely in its current form.
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