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Helaman Escobar is leaving his post as the director of the DNA sequencing and genomics core facility at the University of Utah in order to head the DNA sequencing operation at Eurofins' Operon/MWG in Huntsville, Ala. The University of Utah is currently seeking a replacement for his position.


John Keilty has been promoted to vice president of information technology and informatics at Infinity Pharmaceuticals, a cancer drug discovery and development company. Prior to joining Infinity in 2002, he worked for Millennium Pharmaceuticals, where he was responsible for sequence analysis, genotyping, application development, and DNA sequencing. Keilty holds a BA in biology from Clark University.


Lutz Kirchrath has become managing director of European field operations at NuGen Technologies, where he will lead both sales and technical support functions. Most recently, Kirchrath was European pharmaceutical district manager for Affymetrix. Prior to that, he spent nearly five years in sales development and applications support with Amersham Pharmacia Biotech in Freiburg, Germany. Kirchrath holds a doctorate in microbiology and molecular genetics, and a diploma in biology, from the Heinrich-Heine Universität in Düsseldorf, Germany.

The Scan

International Team Proposes Checklist for Returning Genomic Research Results

Researchers in the European Journal of Human Genetics present a checklist to guide the return of genomic research results to study participants.

Study Presents New Insights Into How Cancer Cells Overcome Telomere Shortening

Researchers report in Nucleic Acids Research that ATRX-deficient cancer cells have increased activity of the alternative lengthening of telomeres pathway.

Researchers Link Telomere Length With Alzheimer's Disease

Within UK Biobank participants, longer leukocyte telomere length is associated with a reduced risk of dementia, according to a new study in PLOS One.

Nucleotide Base Detected on Near-Earth Asteroid

Among other intriguing compounds, researchers find the nucleotide uracil, a component of RNA sequences, in samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu, as they report in Nature Communications.