Variants affecting Alzheimer's risk, cholesterol levels, and more also affect human longevity, according to a speaker at the Biology of Genomes meeting.
At the Biology of Genomes meeting, University of South Australia's Alicia Byrne described her team's work using sequencing to solve cases of perinatal death.
Meeting organizer Jennifer Doudna explained how CRISPR has become an everyday research tool and how next year's meeting will feature more diverse applications.
