HPV testing in combination with liquid-based cytology in primary cervical screening (ARTISTIC): a randomised controlled trial
Kitchener H, et al.
British researchers involved in the ARTISTIC randomized clinical trial compared the effectiveness of liquid-based cytology screening with or without HPV co-testing in more than 24,000 women. Based on their results from two rounds of testing over about three years, they concluded that cytology alone was as effective as co-testing for identifying high-risk cervical intraepithelial neoplasia, or CIN lesions, pre-cancerous cell growths on the cervix. The paper appears in Lancet Oncology.
An Integrated Genetic and Cytogenetic Map of the Cucumber Genome
Ren Y, Zhang Z, Liu J, Staub JE, Han Y, et al.
In a paper in PLoS ONE, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the China Agricultural University, and the US Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service used whole genome shotgun sequencing to come up with nearly 1,000 polymorphic simple sequence repeat markers in cucumber. Using these markers, along with cytogenetic data, they then created a high-density linkage map that's expected to form the foundation for future genetic and genomic studies in cucumbers and related plants.
