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Alzheimer's Disease Risk Linked to New Loci in X Chromosome-Wide Association Study
Researchers found Alzheimer's disease risk loci on the X chromosome and focused in on a gene suspected to affect amyloid beta accumulation.
Gates Foundation Awards Multiple Omics, Dx Grants in July
Awardees include PATH, Prolific Machines, the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Wits Health Consortium, Washington University in St. Louis, and Cedars-Sinai.
Placental Single-Cell Expression Atlas Points to Potential Preterm Birth Biomarkers
Researchers turned to single-cell transcriptomics to characterize expression-based placental cell clusters, identifying maternal-fetal interactions and labor-related signatures.
Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Awards $21M in Research Grants
The grants will support research using omics and other technologies to study and treat different forms of multiple myeloma including high-risk disease.
Pan-Cancer Study Points to Epigenetic Contributors to Cancer Development, Metastasis
With single-cell sequencing strategies, researchers profiled epigenomic and transcriptomic features in individual cells from hundreds of tumors across 11 cancer types.