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David Agus

Feb 14, 2017

David Agus has joined personalized oncology firm Tempus as Chairman of the firm's scientific advisory board. He is currently a Professor at the University of Southern California and head of its Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine. Agus holds a medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania and completed a fellowship in medical oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

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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.