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Young Stars

Forbes' Matthew Herper lists the "the top 30 rising stars in science and health," a list that includes a few 'omics names. The list, he adds, was generated with the help of Forbes producers and three judges: Yale's Harlan Krumholz, Harvard's George Church, and Andy Plump from Sanofi.

On it are UCLA's Christina Agapakis, who works on synthetic biology; Immumetrix's Christina Fan, who focuses on prenatal genetic testing; and Caltech's Mitchell Guttman, who helped uncover lincRNAs; Isaac Kinde at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, who is working to improve the accuracy of DNA sequencing technology; and Adina Mangubat at Spiral Genetics, who is offering a cloud-based solution to manage DNA sequencing data, among others.

The Scan

International Team Proposes Checklist for Returning Genomic Research Results

Researchers in the European Journal of Human Genetics present a checklist to guide the return of genomic research results to study participants.

Study Presents New Insights Into How Cancer Cells Overcome Telomere Shortening

Researchers report in Nucleic Acids Research that ATRX-deficient cancer cells have increased activity of the alternative lengthening of telomeres pathway.

Researchers Link Telomere Length With Alzheimer's Disease

Within UK Biobank participants, longer leukocyte telomere length is associated with a reduced risk of dementia, according to a new study in PLOS One.

Nucleotide Base Detected on Near-Earth Asteroid

Among other intriguing compounds, researchers find the nucleotide uracil, a component of RNA sequences, in samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu, as they report in Nature Communications.