The Associated Press reports that a Chinese medical student has been arrested and is being held without bail after allegedly trying to smuggle cancer research materials out of the US.
The Washington Post reports that critics have called George Church's genetic dating app a form of eugenics, but he has pushed back against the characterization.
A genome-wide association study meta-analysis of eight psychiatric conditions led to new and known risk loci, and revealed three distinct groups of conditions.
Using systems biology, investigators put cancer risk SNPs in a network context, identifying immune, tumor-related, and other genes influenced by the variants in multiple tissue types.
In Nature this week: resources for single-cell analysis, little overlap in the microRNAs used by Salmonella and Shigella to infect host cells, and more.
In PLOS this week: genome-wide association study of epigenetic age acceleration, antimicrobial resistance genes found in organic egg farm samples, and more.
