Q&A: Algorithm achieves near end-to-end genome assembly without ultra-long DNA sequencing

Haoyu Cheng, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical informatics and data science at Yale School of Medicine, has developed a new algorithm capable of building complete human genomes using standard ...
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Could a smudge of DNA help unlock Leonardo da Vinci’s genius? A forensic scientist explains

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. It’s been more than 500 years since Leonardo da Vinci died. Yet, in those intervening ...
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Texas DPS removes key barrier for sexual assault survivors with new DNA testing program

Sexual assault survivors in Texas can now get a forensic medical exam and have evidence collected without filing a police report. Medicare coverage is changing next month After winning his first Oscar ...
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Structure Therapeutics Reports Positive Topline Data from ACCESS Program for its Once-Daily Oral Small Molecule GLP-1 Receptor Agonist, Aleniglipron

Placebo-adjusted mean weight loss of 11.3% (27.3 lbs) with 120 mg dose in the 36-week Phase 2b ACCESS study with a 10.4% adverse event-related treatment discontinuation Placebo-adjusted mean weight ...
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The DNA Helix Changed How We Thought About Ourselves

“The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we conceived of life itself. The X-ray crystallography by Rosalind Franklin ...
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James Watson, co-discoverer of double-helix shape of DNA, dies at 97

James Watson, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who co-discovered the double-helix structure of DNA in 1953, has died. Watson was 97 years old and passed away after a brief illness. His groundbreaking ...
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James Watson, Who Helped Discover DNA’s Double-Helix Structure, Dies at 97

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Watson's former employer, confirmed the American scientist's death on Nov. 7 DANIEL MORDZINSKI/AFP via Getty Legendary scientist James Watson has died at the age of 97 ...
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James Watson, Nobel Prize-winning biologist who discovered the structure of DNA with Francis Crick

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. James Watson in 1993: he called Prince Charles ‘a Luddite’ and controversially portrayed Rosalind Franklin as being dour, dowdy ...
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James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA's double helix who later courted controversy, dead at 97

James D. Watson, the brilliant but controversial American biologist whose 1953 discovery of the structure of DNA, the molecule of heredity, ushered in the age of genetics and provided the foundation ...
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James Watson, who co-discovered the structure of DNA, has died at age 97

For James Watson, DNA was everything — not just his life's work, but the secret of life itself. Over his long and storied career, Watson arguably did more than any other scientist to transform a ...
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James Watson, Nobel Prize winner and co-discoverer of double-helix DNA, dead at 97

James D. Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution in medicine, crimefighting, genealogy and ethics, has died. He was 97. The ...