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Sarcomas are rare tumors that are often misdiagnosed. A report in the Journal of Molecular Diagnostics describes a new assay, anchored multiplex PCR (AMP)-based targeted next-generation-sequencing (NGS), that is better able to identify genetic diagnostic markers of the cancer.

A University of Montana researcher has discovered that mountain pine beetles may avoid certain trees within a population they normally would kill due todue to a distinct genetic makeup in the protected population.

In a new study in cells, University of Illinois researchers have adapted CRISPR gene-editing technology to cause the cell’s internal machinery to skip over a small portion of a gene when transcribing it into a template for protein building. This gives researchers a way not only to eliminate a mutated gene sequence, but to influence how the gene is expressed and regulated.