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  Vernon Niven

  

  Researchers shatter the speed record for diagnosing rare genetic diseases with DNA sequencing

  statnews.com - Jonathan Wosen

  About a year ago, Matthew Kunzman’s heart was failing, despite doctors’ best attempts to bolster it with every pump and gadget they could think of. …

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  Vernon Niven

  

  CRISPR Pioneers Doudna and Banfield Introduce Microbiome Community Editing

  Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News - Julianna LeMieux, PhD

  CRISPR systems have been developed, to date, to edit the genes of one type of cell at a time. Now, a new technique has been characterized that can …

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  Vernon Niven

  

  COVID-19 Omicron variant cases identified in Europe, U.K.

  Axios - Erin Doherty

  Health officials in the United Kingdom, Italy and Germany announced on Saturday that they've detected the first known cases of the new COVID-19 …

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  Vernon Niven

  

  CRISPR-based 'antibiotic' eliminates dangerous bacterium from the gut

  newscientist.com - Michael Le Page

  A benign bacterium armed with a designer, CRISPR-based weapon has been used to eliminate a harmful bacterium from the guts of mice while leaving all …

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  Vernon Niven

  

  Arabian DNA Shows Route of Early Human Migration from Africa

  greekreporter.com - Patricia Claus

  Confirming what researchers have believed for many years, but hadn’t been able to prove definitively, recent DNA testing suggests that ancient Arabia …

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  Vernon Niven

  

  DNA Virus Creates Computer Virus - Marginal REVOLUTION

  marginalrevolution.com - Alex Tabarrok

  …a group of researchers from the University of Washington has shown for the first time that it’s possible to encode malicious software into physical …