Pairings: Jan 7, 2009

Jan 07, 2009

Premium

Gentris Clinical Genetics announced the appointment of Dawn Bordeaux as its chief operating officer, L. Scott Clark as chief scientific officer, and Suzanne Phillips as VP of scientific operations. Previously at the company, Bordeaux was VP of quality assurance and finance, Clark was the VP of scientific operations, and Phillips was the senior director of research and development.

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Diagnostics

Breaking News

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The Scan

Transcriptomic, Epigenetic Study Appears to Explain Anti-Viral Effects of TB Vaccine

Researchers report in Science Advances on an interferon signature and long-term shifts in monocyte cell DNA methylation in Bacille Calmette-Guérin-vaccinated infant samples.

DNA Storage Method Taps Into Gene Editing Technology

With a dual-plasmid system informed by gene editing, researchers re-wrote DNA sequences in E. coli to store Charles Dickens prose over hundreds of generations, as they recount in Science Advances.

Researchers Model Microbiome Dynamics in Effort to Understand Chronic Human Conditions

Investigators demonstrate in PLOS Computational Biology a computational method for following microbiome dynamics in the absence of longitudinally collected samples.

New Study Highlights Role of Genetics in ADHD

Researchers report in Nature Genetics on differences in genetic architecture between ADHD affecting children versus ADHD that persists into adulthood or is diagnosed in adults.