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Foresight Diagnostics: Uplaksh Kumar

Uplaksh Kumar will be joining Foresight Diagnostics' board of directors in conjunction with the firm's recent Series B financing round. Kumar is a venture partner at Foresite Capital, the lead investor in the round. Previously, he was senior VP of strategic operations and scale at Grail. Prior to that, he was head of operations at Verily and held various leadership positions at Life Technologies, BD, Lonza, and Qiagen.

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ChatGPT Does As Well As Humans Answering Genetics Questions, Study Finds

Researchers in the European Journal of Human Genetics had ChatGPT answer genetics-related questions, finding it was about 68 percent accurate, but sometimes gave different answers to the same question.

Sequencing Analysis Examines Gene Regulatory Networks of Honeybee Soldier, Forager Brains

Researchers in Nature Ecology & Evolution find gene regulatory network differences between soldiers and foragers, suggesting bees can take on either role.

Analysis of Ashkenazi Jewish Cohort Uncovers New Genetic Loci Linked to Alzheimer's Disease

The study in Alzheimer's & Dementia highlighted known genes, but also novel ones with biological ties to Alzheimer's disease.

Tara Pacific Expedition Project Team Finds High Diversity Within Coral Reef Microbiome

In papers appearing in Nature Communications and elsewhere, the team reports on findings from the two-year excursion examining coral reefs.