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SomaLogic CEO Steps Down Amid Board Turnover; Firm's Q4 Revenues Drop 18 Percent

Ex-CEO Roy Smythe is one of three people stepping down from the board. He will be replaced by Adam Taich, formerly executive VP of life sciences at SomaLogic.
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Reactivated Promoters in Transposable Elements Help Form Unique Tumor Antigens

The finding of tumor-specific cell-surface antigens resulting from TE-chimeric transcripts lays the foundation for developing a pan-cancer vaccine, according to the authors.

Genialis Closes $13M Series A Funding Round

Machine learning firm Genialis will use the new financing to beef up its ResponderID software and related catalog of clinically validated cancer biomarkers.

Schmidt Futures Gives $50M for Life Science Research Including Single-Cell Proteomics Institute
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The philanthropy has joined hedge fund founder Ken Griffin to fund a new research facility headed by single-cell proteomics pioneer Nikolai Slavov.

American Heart Association Offers Guidelines on Reporting Incidental Findings of Sequencing Tests

Any findings on "incidental variants" related to cardiovascular diseases should only be revealed to patients if they have consented to receiving the information. 
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Study Examines Insights Gained by Adjunct Trio RNA Sequencing in Complex Pediatric Disease Cases

Researchers in AJHG explore the diagnostic utility of adding parent-child RNA-seq to genome sequencing in dozens of families with complex, undiagnosed genetic disease.

Clinical Genomic Lab Survey Looks at Workforce Needs

Investigators use a survey approach in Genetics in Medicine Open to assess technologist applications, retention, and workforce gaps at molecular genetics and clinical cytogenetics labs in the US.

Study Considers Gene Regulatory Features Available by Sequence-Based Modeling

Investigators in Genome Biology set sequence-based models against observational and perturbation assay data, finding distal enhancer models lag behind promoter predictions.

Genetic Testing Approach Explores Origins of Blastocyst Aneuploidy

Investigators in AJHG distinguish between aneuploidy events related to meiotic missegregation in haploid cells and those involving post-zygotic mitotic errors and mosaicism.