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Every day humans and animals face ambiguous circumstances. If we become sick after eating, we blame the food; however, if we then fall ill without having eaten that food, the causal link becomes ambiguous.

Scientists from The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC) in partnership with Agricultural Genetics Institute (AGI) begin their bioinformatics training programme in Vietnam to identify 600 rice varieties to accelerate crop breeding.

UK’s Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult and the Australian CRC for Cell Therapy Manufacturing sign new agreement to advance scaffold technology for commercial production of T-cells.

Novel approach aids development of drug resistance testing products for HIV.

Experimental method uses genetics-guided biomechanics, patient-specific stem cells.

Neutrons probe structure of enzyme critical to development of next-generation HIV drugs.

A comparison of synthetic gene-activating Cas9 proteins can help guide research and development of therapeutic approaches.

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin demonstrated the ability to detect single viruses in a solution containing murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV).

Men with blood cells that do not carry the Y chromosome are at greater risk of being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. This is in addition to an increased risk of death from other causes, including many cancers. These new findings by researchers at Uppsala University could lead to a simple test to identify those at risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease.

New Phenome Centre Birmingham, UK to use Thermo Scientific mass spectrometry instruments to advance metabolic phenotyping and metabolomics studies.