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Orphan Gene Linked to Neurodevelopmental Disorder Characterized by Hearing Loss
Through a sequencing screen of patients, researchers identified biallelic variants in SPATA5L1 that were associated with hearing loss, intellectual disability, and epilepsy.
Some core labs are expecting long waitlists in 2021 as PacBio's HiFi reads draw interest from researchers looking to put together whole genomes.
Rebranding Reflects iPlant Platform's Growing Popularity in the Life Sciences, Other Domains
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CyVerse, the developers believe, better expresses the platform's capacity to provide data management and computation to researchers across multiple scientific disciplines.
Transcriptome Analysis Reveals Whole-Genome Duplications in Conifer Lineage
Analyses on sequence data for more than two-dozen plants point to two previously unknown whole-genome duplication events in the conifer lineage.
A proof-of-principle study has shown a new qPCR device can detect bacterial DNA in under four minutes using droplet size as a readout of amplification.