Assembling more than 1,000 human genomes affordably: New method could power genetic screening's future

A research team led by Zhen-Xing Endowed Professor Jian Yang at the School of Life Sciences, Westlake University, has ...
Business Wire

Cognito Therapeutics Appoints Thomas Fagan as Executive Vice President, Alzheimer’s Portfolio

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cognito Therapeutics, a late clinical-stage neurotechnology company pioneering non-invasive therapies for neurodegenerative diseases, today announced the appointment ...
Forbes

$105 Million Brings Cognito, And Neurotech, to a Pivotal Stage

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I’m an analyst covering neurotech's impact on business and society. Cognito Therapeutics announced a $105 million Series C round ...
The Economist

The Human Exposome Project will map how environmental factors shape health

IF TIMING IS everything, then Thomas Hartung picked a bad moment to make his move. Dr Hartung is an environmental toxicologist at Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, who has spent his career ...
Science Daily

The human exposome could change everything we know about disease

Scientists are launching an ambitious global effort to map the “human exposome” — the lifelong mix of environmental and chemical exposures that drive most diseases. Backed by new partnerships with ...
The Conversation

RNA is key to the dark matter of the genome − scientists are sequencing it to illuminate human health and disease

Marlene Belfort does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
Yahoo

RNA is key to the dark matter of the genome − scientists are sequencing it to illuminate human health and disease

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There is still a great deal unknown about RNA and its modifications. Christoph Burgstedt/Science Photo Library via Getty Images ...
Medscape

Genome Project Aims at Better Healthcare for Black Canadians

Genome Canada has launched the genCARE project, which aims to improve health outcomes for Black Canadians by uncovering genetic variants unique to that population. The Black-led project will undertake ...
Gizmodo

DeepMind’s New AI Can Read a Million DNA Letters at Once—and Actually Understand Them

Artificial intelligence has gotten a bad reputation lately, and often for good reason. But a team of scientists at Google’s DeepMind now claims to have found a revolutionary use case for AI: helping ...
The New York Times

Researchers Are Using A.I. to Decode the Human Genome

AlphaGenome is a leap forward in the ability to study the human blueprint. But the fine workings of our DNA are still largely a mystery. By Carl Zimmer In 2024, two scientists from Google DeepMind ...
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New genome project focuses on chronic illnesses prevalent in Black Canadians

Research shows Black Canadians are more likely to be diagnosed with certain conditions like Type 2 diabetes, but the demographic has been left out of crucial research. A new genome project is ...
GEN

Writing the Code of Life: Synthetic Human Chromosomes on the Horizon

Learning to read and write is the beginning of literacy, a progression now mirrored in modern genomics. Scientists first read the human genome, a three-billion-letter biological book, in April 2003.