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Genetic Signatures EasyScreen STI/Genital Pathogen Detection Kit

Genetic Signatures has launched the EasyScreen STI Kit to simultaneously detect the 12 most commonly encountered sexually transmitted infections. The kit runs on standard lab equipment and the firm's proprietary 3base method, which reduces genetic information complexity and delivers accurate results in hours. The kit will initially be available for research use only until regulatory approvals are gained in Australia and the EU, and the 12 targets detected by the kit will also be available as analyte specific reagents in the US.

The Scan

Genetic Ancestry of South America's Indigenous Mapuche Traced

Researchers in Current Biology analyzed genome-wide data from more than five dozen Mapuche individuals to better understand their genetic history.

Study Finds Variants Linked to Diverticular Disease, Presents Polygenic Score

A new study in Cell Genomics reports on more than 150 genetic variants associated with risk of diverticular disease.

Mild, Severe Psoriasis Marked by Different Molecular Features, Spatial Transcriptomic Analysis Finds

A spatial transcriptomics paper in Science Immunology finds differences in cell and signaling pathway activity between mild and severe psoriasis.

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.