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Black Death Sequencing Study Reveals Impacts on Human Immune Evolution, Autoimmune Disease
Researchers profiled DNA sequences in hundreds of ancient Europeans to find immune gene- and autoimmune disease-related variants under selection during the plague pandemic.
Studies Unravel SARS-CoV-2 Protein Interactions With Human Proteins
A pair of studies identified connections between proteins from SARS-CoV-2 and human cells, hitting on key host pathways and potential treatment targets.
Vanuatu Population Structure, History Drawn From Contemporary Genetic Data
With genotypes for more than 1,400 ni-Vanuatu, coupled with whole-genome sequence data, researchers retraced population patterns across 29 Remote Oceanic islands.
Speedy Long-Read Genome Assembly Enabled by Minimizer-Space Analysis
The minimizer-space de Bruijn graph approach could assemble a human genome in less than 10 minutes using eight cores and 10 gigabytes of random access memory.
SARS-CoV-2 Protein Interaction Study Reveals Key Proliferation Pathways, Possible Drug Targets
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The study compared SARS-CoV-2 to SARS-CoV-1 and MERS to find viral commonalities, and combined the analyses with real-world clinical data to suggest treatments.