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Tibetan Plateau Population Relationships, Adaptations Assessed With Ancient Genomes

With new sequences for 89 ancient individuals, researchers identified shared and distinct ancestry patterns within Tibetan Plateau populations going back 5,100 years.

Australia's Genetic Technologies Seeks Private Payor Coverage to Bring Polygenic Risk Tests to US
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The company plans pilot studies with several private insurers to support coverage for its suite of combined clinical and polygenic risk tests.

SD Biosensor Eyes Global Expansion as Evaluations Find Rapid MDx System on Par With Competition
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The sample-to-answer system can multiplex up to 12 targets and can run both isothermal assays and RT-PCR with results in 30 minutes or 60 minutes, respectively.

Gastric Cancer Driver Analysis Leads to Ancestry-, Subtype-Specific Features

A multi-ancestry analysis highlighted gastric cancer drivers, including those linked to specific cancer subtypes, patient ancestry, and lifestyle-related risk factors.

Exome Sequencing for Cerebral Palsy Has Sufficient Diagnostic Yield for First-Tier Test

A meta-analysis of prior studies found that the diagnostic yield of exome sequencing for cerebral palsy exceeded 31 percent, similar to other neurodevelopmental disorders.

Mar 6, 2023

MGI Tech Gets CE Mark for DNBSeq-G99 Sequencer Under New EU IVDR Framework

Mar 6, 2023

AnPac Bio Plans $5M Private Placement

Mar 3, 2023

BGI Genomics Gets Australian Regulatory Approval for Multiplexed SARS-CoV-2, Influenza Test

Mar 2, 2023

Grapevine Domesticated Simultaneously at Two Sites, Sequencing Study Finds

Mar 1, 2023

Chinese University of Hong Kong, Take2 Sue Pacific Biosciences Over DNA Methylation Detection Tech

Mar 1, 2023

Ice Age European History Refined With Ancient DNA Sequences

Mar 1, 2023

Germline Mutation Rates Differ Vastly Across Vertebrate Species; Show Sex Bias in Mammals, Birds

Feb 27, 2023

End-Stage Ovarian Cancer Marked by Rampant Treatment Resistance, Multiple Clones

Feb 24, 2023

In Brief This Week: Personalis, Biocartis, Opko Health, Berkeley Lights, More

Feb 22, 2023

Allelica, SP BioMed Partner for Breast Cancer Polygenic Risk Score Study in Taiwan

Feb 16, 2023

New MERS-Like Coronavirus Found in Pangolins Can Infect Human Cells

Feb 15, 2023

Incite Health Acquires Mental Illness Pharmacogenetics Firm CNSDose

Feb 14, 2023

MGI Tech Reports Preliminary 2022 Results

Feb 10, 2023

In Brief This Week: Meridian Bioscience, SQI Diagnostics, Applied DNA, Abbott, Danaher, More

Feb 9, 2023

Indonesian Genomics Startup Asa Ren Closes $8.2M Funding Round

Feb 8, 2023

Singapore Population Genomics Program Moves Into Phenotyping Phase With BC Platforms Partnership
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Feb 3, 2023

Genetic Technologies to Raise A$5M in Direct Stock Offering

Feb 3, 2023

Bionano Genomics Obtains China NMPA Approval for DNA Extraction, Labeling Products
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Feb 2, 2023

Siemens Healthineers Q1 Dx Revenues Fall 21 Percent; Firm Strikes Lab Analyzer Deal With Unilabs

Jan 31, 2023

Gastric Cancer Chemotherapy Response, Prognoses Predicted With Blood-Based Immune Proteomics

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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.

Clinical Trial Participants, Investigators Point to Importance of Clinical Trial Results Reporting in Canadian Study

Public reporting on clinical trial results is crucial, according to interviews with clinical trial participants, investigators, and organizers from three provinces appearing in BMJ Open.

Old Order Amish Analysis Highlights Autozygosity, Potential Ties to Blood Measures

Researchers in BMC Genomics see larger and more frequent runs-of-homozygosity in Old Order Amish participants, though only regional autozygosity coincided with two blood-based measures.

Suicidal Ideation-Linked Loci Identified Using Million Veteran Program Data

Researchers in PLOS Genetics identify risk variants within and across ancestry groups with a genome-wide association study involving veterans with or without a history of suicidal ideation.