A DNA urine test for brain tumors https://innovationtoronto.com/2023/07/a-dna-urine-test-for-brain-tumors/
A DNA urine test for brain tumors https://innovationtoronto.com/2023/07/a-dna-urine-test-for-brain-tumors/
New #microbe #cellfreeDNA biomarker just dropped. Could be an incredibly useful tool to increase specificity in blood diagnostics of pathogens #infectiousdisease #bioinformatics
The use of fragmentomic features could facilitate the differentiation of underlying contaminating microbes from true pathogens in sepsis. This work demonstrates the potential usefulness of microbial cfDNA fragmentomics in metagenomics analysis.
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Iām Sam, my lab at McMaster University šØš¦ works with multi-omics data and computational approaches to understand the etiologies of placental dysfunction. We are also interested in developing non-invasive methods to assess placental and pregnancy health.
#placenta #cfDNA #cellfreedna #genomics #epigenomics #compbio #bioinformatics #machinelearning #computationalbiology #nipt #canadianscience #science #biology