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  • Assay determines the percentage of Omicron, other variants in Covid wastewater

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    August 25, 2022

    Developed by the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, the assay can provide new details about the type of SARS-CoV-2 circulating in a community. Playing a crucial role in the pandemic and dengue outbreaks are SMART and SCELSE researchers who leverage instruments for wastewater surveillance. Their latest advances in detection and quantification of viral pathogens…

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  • Neurodegenerative disease can progress in newly identified patterns

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    September 27, 2022

    A machine-learning method finds patterns of health decline in ALS, informing future clinical trial designs and mechanism discovery. The technique also extends to Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Neurodegenerative diseases — like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease), Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s — are complicated, chronic ailments that can present with a variety of symptoms, worsen at different rates, and have…

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  • When cells’ tiny differences have far-reaching implications

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    July 21, 2022

    Photo: M.Scott Brauer Alex Shalek’s technologies for single-cell RNA profiling can help dissect the cellular bases of complex diseases around the globe. Within a given tissue or organ, cells may appear very similar or even identical. But at the molecular level, these cells can have small differences that lead to wide variations in their functions.…

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