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Liquid Biopsy of Brain Tumors: Spinal Fluid DNA Profiling Moves Into Real-World Neuro-Oncology

Brain tumors occupy one of the most diagnostically awkward positions in all of medicine. They sit behind the blood-brain barrier, sheltered from the bloodstream, and are typically reachable only ...
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Multiplexed single-cell sequencing reads DNA methylation in hundreds of cells at once

DNA methylation — the chemical tagging of cytosine bases that helps decide which genes are on and which are silent — is one ...
Medical Xpress

AI promises to ramp up PCR tests for faster DNA diagnostics and forensics

Promising new inroads into critical DNA testing has been forecast by Flinders University experts who have applied machine learning to DNA profiling. From medical diagnostics to forensic tests and ...
Fred Hutch

Cell free DNA profiling may unlock the key to studying small cell lung cancer

Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) remains a challenging cancer type to treat effectively. While patients initially respond to chemotherapy and immunotherapies, the disease almost always returns, often ...
insider.si.edu

Truth machine the contentious history of DNA fingerprinting Michael Lynch, Simon A. Cole, Ruth McNally, and Kathleen Jordan

nmahmai copy Purchased from the NMAH Library Endowment. A revolution in forensic science? -- Interlude A : DNA profiling techniques -- A techno-legal controversy -- Interlude B : Admissibility, ...