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  • Jeff Gore: A physicist exploring population dynamics of microbes

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    May 15, 2018
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    MIT Professor sees many "big, deep questions in biology" that benefit from study by both physicists and life scientists. It’s a pretty good bet that among MIT’s physics faculty, Jeff Gore is the only one with test tubes of yeast growing in his lab. Gore, a biophysicist who studies population dynamics, uses yeast and other…

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  • Protecting confidentiality in genomic studies

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    May 8, 2018
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    Cryptographic system could enable "crowdsourced" genomics, with volunteers contributing information to privacy-protected databases. Genome-wide association studies, which look for links between particular genetic variants and incidence of disease, are the basis of much modern biomedical research. But databases of genomic information pose privacy risks. From people’s raw genomic data, it may be possible to infer…

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  • Biologists discover function of gene linked to familial ALS

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    May 7, 2018
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    Study in worms reveals gene loss can lead to accumulation of waste products in cells. MIT biologists have discovered a function of a gene that is believed to account for up to 40 percent of all familial cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Studies of ALS patients have shown that an abnormally expanded region of…

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