University of Nottingham
Lung Function GWAS Meta-Analysis Yields Insights Into Healthy, Diseased States
A multi-ancestry meta-analysis revealed more than 550 lung function-related genes, along with genetic risk scores linked to several traits or conditions.
Hearing Loss GWAS Meta-Analysis Highlights Cochlear Structure Role in Hearing Impairment
Investigators saw a role for the stria vascularis in hearing loss with genetic data for 147,997 hearing loss cases and 575,269 controls, coupled with follow-up functional analyses in mice.
UK researchers said they are developing a commercial test that could enable sensitive detection of tuberculosis DNA in blood and provide an option to broaden screening.
Early-access users of the Flongle said the small, inexpensive flow cells allow them to develop new methods quickly and to check the quality of clones and libraries.
Long-Read Genome Assemblies Have Many Errors in Protein-Coding Regions, Study Finds
Three long-read assemblies — two from PacBio data alone and one from Oxford Nanopore and Illumina data — had considerably more indel errors in genes than short-read assemblies.