Open Heart

Enhanced cardiovascular disease risk prediction using integrated machine learning models: a study from the UK Biobank cohort

Objective Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) remain the leading cause of mortality globally, necessitating early risk ...

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 ...
Indiatimes

What every parent should know about their child’s genetic code

Each child is born into this world oblivious of the genetic risks for various diseases that they carry. Of course, they are too young and innocent to know it, but even their parents are ignorant of ...

Neanderthals seemed to have a thing for modern human women

By now, it’s firmly established that modern humans and their Neanderthal relatives met and mated as our ancestors expanded ...
WTOP News

Mapping the genetic code of ocean life at the Smithsonian

Did you know one of the largest collections of marine DNA in the entire world is hiding just outside D.C.? In today’s episode of “Matt About Town,” we’re taking an even deeper dive into the ...
Nature

UGA: A Third Nonsense Triplet in the Genetic Code

For the structure of the genetic code and the evidence for nonsense triplets see the papers in the Cold Spring Harbor Symposium XXXI on “The Genetic Code”, 1966 (in the press). Weigert, M. G., Lanka, ...