Tag: Genomics

Extending The Human Life Span By A Decade Within A Decade

Can Precision Genomics, AI, and a New Perspective on Preventive Medicine Achieve This? Healthcare is constantly evolving around the world as scientists and doctors...

The “Google of genomics” meets the techbashers of antitrust

Sep 11th 2021IN 2013 MEREDITH HALKS MILLER, a laboratory director at Illumina, the world’s biggest gene-sequencing firm, spotted something odd as she examined the...

As Coronavirus Variants Spread, the US Struggles to Keep Up

It’s not a unique quirk, but like many other Covid-19 tests, Helix’s hunts for three snippets of the virus’s genome. One of those snippets...

What Happens When You Swap a Human Gene With a Neanderthal’s?

What are the key differences between modern humans and our closest relatives, the Neanderthals and Denisovans? For the Neanderthals, there doesn't seem to be...

UK variant of Covid will ‘sweep the world’, says scientist – Times of India

LONDON: The Covid-19 variant, which was first detected in the UK's Kent last year, is set to become the dominant strain and is going...

Covid is Strengthening the Push for Indigenous Data Control

This story originally appeared on High Country News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.As US government scientists work to understand how...

Data Sharing and Open Source Software Help Combat Covid-19

On February 27, a teenager in the Seattle area was diagnosed with Covid-19. Shortly after, researchers at the Seattle Flu Study shared genomic...

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