dna
Mapping the Final Blueprints: Identifying the Remaining 8 Percent of a Whole Human Genome
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The Telomere-to-Telomere Consortium identified the last sequences, revealing a 100 percent complete human genome for the first time.
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Yusef Salaam, One of The ‘Exonerated Five,’ Talks Criminal Justice Reform
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To a packed audience in Sage Chapel, Yusef Salaam — a member of the falsely imprisoned “Exonerated Five” — spoke about his experiences with incarceration, faith and criminal justice reform.
NASA
Weill-Cornell and NASA-Led Twins Study Reveals the Effects of Living in Space Long Term
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For 340 days, astronaut Scott Kelly lived in the International Space Station, while his identical twin brother Mark Kelly, a retired astronaut, lived a regular life on Earth. Both collected physiological and cognitive data about themselves, hoping to find out what space would do to a human’s body.
23andMe
What’s in Your DNA? Cornell Genomics Class Provides Students Free 23andMe Testing
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The goal of the course and the option to participate in the 23andMe genetic testing is to help demystify genetics and genetic science, especially for students not majoring in scientific fields.
bioinformatics
Professors Further Efforts to Understand Repetitive Regions of the Genome
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The idea behind efforts in multiple systems was to see if the evolutionary behavior in acquiring changes by these repetitive DNA regions was universal.