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Protecting confidentiality in genomic studies
Read more: Protecting confidentiality in genomic studiesCryptographic 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
Read more: Biologists discover function of gene linked to familial ALSStudy 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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With The Herman Project, home bakers become citizen scientists
Read more: With The Herman Project, home bakers become citizen scientistsNetwork tracks the evolution of microbial communitites in sourdough starter mixtures shared around the world. Researchers from MIT are taking their microbial research out of the lab and into the kitchen. Their new Herman Project modernizes a longstanding tradition, with a digital network that tracks the evolution of sourdough starters as they are shared by…
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