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Justin Petrone covers consumer genomics, ancestry testing, and the microarray and biochip sector of the genomics market for GenomeWeb.

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Nov 30, 2018

Liquid Biopsy Test to Guide Prostate Cancer Treatment Being Developed With £5M Award

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Led by investigators at the University of Trento in Italy, the team received a five-year, £5 million ($6.4 million) award recently to advance its work.

Nov 29, 2018

Danish Personalized Medicine Initiative Supported by New National Genome Center

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The center, set to open next year, will establish a national sequencing infrastructure, manage a national genome database, and make the data available for research.

Oct 25, 2018

Amid GDPR Implementation, European Effort Drafts Code of Conduct for Sharing Health Research Data

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Led by researchers at BBMRI-ERIC, the effort intends to clarify how entities should share data, including genomics information, across institutions and countries.

Oct 08, 2018

European PEP-NET Consortium Aims to Integrate Epigenetic Data With Mathematical Models

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Participants aim to use predictive modeling to better understand epigenetic mechanisms, while encouraging the development of new technologies and therapies.

Sep 27, 2018

Initiative Aims to Make a Million European Genomes Available to Researchers by 2022

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Seventeen European countries have signed a declaration to have a million genomes sequenced and shareable by 2022.

Sep 25, 2018

SenzaGen Positions New In Vitro Test for Airway Allergies as Alternative to Animal Testing

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The company is marketing the panel, which runs on NanoString Technologies' nCounter System, to chemical and cosmetics firms as a replacement for animal models.

Sep 05, 2018

European Clinics Evaluating New Card System for Making PGx Data Available to Patients

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The system relies on the use of scannable safety code cards containing patient data, along with a web portal and automated analysis tools that deliver customized diagnostic reports.

Aug 23, 2018

Council of Europe Protocol on Genetic Testing Could Serve as Blueprint for New Laws

The protocol could lead to greater regulatory harmonization in Europe, where every country has its own national legislation covering genetic testing.

Aug 10, 2018

With Mapmygenome Deal, DNATix Continues Blockchain Ecosystem Rollout

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Israeli firm DNATix recently claimed not only the transfer of a genetic sequence using blockchain technology, but the transfer of a complete Y chromosome.

Aug 01, 2018

Nucleix Advances Epigenetic Tests for Bladder, Lung Cancers in Europe; Eyes US, China

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The Israeli firm recently announced the results of a multicenter study of its Bladder EpiCheck test in addition to netting €2.5 million in EU funding to develop a lung cancer assay.

The Scan

Weigh the Knowledge

Customers might want to consider what they might learn about their risk of diseases like Alzheimer's before snagging the genetic testing kits that are on many gift guides this year, NJ.com writes.

Diving into Gene-Editing Data

The Wall Street Journal reports there is uncertainty surrounding whether He Jiankui's embryo editing did what he said it did.

Scramble for Tissue

Stat News reports that the pause on procuring fetal tissue for intramural US National Institutes of Health research will soon affect additional labs there.

This Week in Nature

In Nature this week: genomic analysis of the invasive fall webworm, amp of constrained coding regions within the human genome, and more.

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