The plaintiffs are concerned by the growth of DNA databases for law enforcement and want the government to automatically delete profiles of people not convicted of felonies.
Using genome sequence data for 429 accessions, an international team tracked chickpea's origin and spread, while identifying markers for important traits.
The agriculture company said it will use the technology it has licensed for new applications in crop editing and for research to bring new foods to market.
The company — a spinout of the New York Genome Center — said it will use the funding in part to develop its technologies for new applications in agriculture.
The researchers analyzed samples from 60 countries to find antimicrobial resistance gene levels correlated with economic, health, and environmental factors.
A genetic analysis of salmon scales collected over the course of a century points to a sharp decline in the number of fish returning each year to river in British Columbia, CBC reports.
