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Sleep Features Linked to Physical, Lifestyle Measures in Phenome-Wide Association Study
With Human Phenotype Project data, researchers performed a phenome-wide association study linking 448 sleep traits to a wide range of lifestyle factors and body characteristics.
Lifebit, Psifas Partner to Advance Personalized Medicine Initiative in Israel
Psifas will use Lifebit's technology to securely manage and analyze data from its Israeli Genome Graph database.
Israeli Liquid Biopsy Startup Senseera Raises $7.1M in Seed Round
The funding will help the company commercialize a blood-based liver transplant rejection test as it continues to push for its platform in other disease research.
Promise Bio Closes $8.3M Seed Round
The company will use the funds to develop its proteomics-based computational platform to support drug development and guided therapy in immune-mediated diseases.
Findings from two new studies suggest that present-day populations outside of Africa carry Neanderthal DNA obtained in a shared gene flow event that occurred 40,000 to 50,000 years ago.