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Cancer Moonshot

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News items for the week of Jan. 30, 2023.

President Biden Jumpstarts Cancer Moonshot Initiative With Goal of Halving Death Rate

The renewal of the ambitious effort includes the reestablishment of direct White House leadership, with a cross-agency cabinet to drive progress in early detection and care equity.

NCI's Sharpless Calls Data Science 'Critical' to Cancer Research, Precision Oncology
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In a keynote to the AMIA Informatics Summit, the NCI director said precision oncology has created new challenges in data analysis and management.

Nonprofit Count Me In to Return Genomic Results to Patients With Rare Cancers
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With a new $16 million NCI grant, Count Me In is working with the Broad and Dana-Farber to engage osteosarcoma and leiomyosarcoma patients in their own care and in research.

Q&A: Biden Cancer Initiative President Greg Simon Discusses Data Sharing in Precision Oncology
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Standards for interoperability and better cooperation among stakeholders will help unleash the power of genomics in cancer care, says the head of the Biden Cancer Initiative.

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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.