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fromBusiness Insider
15 hours ago

A Silicon Valley engineer cracked the code to find signs of colon cancer in your blood

Guardant Health pursues blood-based early cancer detection via liquid biopsies aiming for routine screening and broader diagnostics, while profitability and long-term reach remain uncertain.
fromPsychology Today
4 weeks ago

Incoming: New Era of Child Choosing Approaches

With IVF, prospective parents already have options to screen embryos, not just for sex or severe genetic diseases, but increasingly for a full range of genetic traits. Thanks to whole genome sequencing (WGS), the choice isn't science fiction; we can now analyze all 20,000+ human genes in an embryo with better than 99.9 percent accuracy for many mutations and chromosomal problems (assuming parents are willing to forego natural conception, and instead supply their eggs and sperm to a lab for embryo creation and analysis).
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fromNature
2 months ago

Whole-genome sequencing of 490,640 UK Biobank participants - Nature

Whole-genome sequencing in 490,640 UK Biobank participants has enabled the discovery of approximately 1.5 billion genetic variants, vastly surpassing previous technologies in observed variation.
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