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Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Show Potential for Finding New Regulatory Variants
Two studies identified common and rare regulatory variants in iPSC lines, including those with ties to disease or differentiation.
Called Intervene, the project will use genomic and health data from biorepositories along with machine learning methods to develop new clinical predictive tools.
New Initiative Aims to Build Organoid Cell Atlas
The European project will use single-cell profiling technologies to build well-characterized in vitro models of human organs and contribute to the Human Cell Atlas.
Launched last month as part of the EU's coronavirus action plan, the portal will collect and distribute SARS-CoV-2 sequencing and patient phenotype data.
Cancer Researchers Discover Novel Inherited Mutation Predisposing Children to Medulloblastoma
The researchers identified rare germline loss-of-function variants across the ELP1 gene in 14 percent of pediatric patients in a medulloblastoma subgroup.