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Hope for Children with Brain Tumors

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uBiome Awards Grant to Study Pregnant Women Genomics and Preterm Birth

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Identification based on genome data could further complicate ethical and legal concerns

In New York, researchers found that genome sequence data can be enough to identify people, even with no other information given, leading to ethical...

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