At the Association for Molecular Pathology annual meeting, cancer researcher William Hahn talked about efforts to map cancer fitness genes at the genome scale.
The researchers said their analysis of healthcare and exome data identified 285 genes overall that were significantly associated with developmental disorders.
With targeted, exome, and whole-genome sequencing data, investigators saw recurrent driver mutations and heterogeneous mutational signatures in seemingly normal bladders.
Using transcription data from cells and nuclei, the researchers uncovered heterogeneity within cardiac cells and mapped them to particular regions of the heart.
The New York Times reports that experts say President Joe Biden's goal of vaccinating 1 million people a day in the US in the next 100 days is too low a bar.
