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Leading New Zealand cancer research ‘super-charged’ by data privacy startup
DUNEDIN, New Zealand, May 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Two top medical research and biotech innovators today announce a partnership that will supercharge cancer research while providing new levels of health data privacy. Amaroq Therapeutics, a world-leading company based...

Kiwi start-up encrypts DNA to protect ‘most important data
CLICK HERE to watch the Interview with Kris Vette & view the rest of the article or read below: The risks of genetic data being misused led start-up company GeneCrypt to team up with Auckland’s Unitec Institute of Technology to develop a way of...

We need to take control of who can see our DNA data
CLICK HERE to read full article and preview video. Insurance companies discriminate based on genetic testing. Play Video https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/128924470/we-need-to-take-control-of-who-can-see-our-dna-data ABIGAIL DOUGHERTY/STUFF Georgia Eve is a young woman...

Australians’ views on Genomic Testing
Australians’ views on personal genomic testing: focus group findings from the Genioz study Abstract Personal genomic testing provides healthy individuals with access to information about their genetic makeup for purposes including ancestry, paternity, sporting ability...

Generalizable Machine Learning Framework, Using ctDNA Exomes
A generalizable machine learning framework for classifying DNA repair defects using ctDNA exomes Abstract Specific classes of DNA damage repair (DDR) defect can drive sensitivity to emerging therapies for metastatic prostate cancer. However, biomarker approaches based...

Liquid Biopsies for Pediatric Solid Tumors
Combined low-pass whole genome and targeted sequencing in liquid biopsies for pediatric solid tumors Abstract We designed a liquid biopsy (LB) platform employing low-pass whole genome sequencing (LP-WGS) and targeted sequencing of cell-free (cf) DNA from plasma to...

The Future of Cancer Treatment is Precision Medicine
Although cancer treatments have improved drastically over the past decade, many cancers can adapt to evade therapeutic drugs. To develop more effective cancer treatments, researchers strive to understand how cancers evolve and interact with other cells in their...

Legislative requirements for healthcare providers over data?
What are the legislative requirements for healthcare providers over genomic data? There are several pieces of legislation in the US and Europe that cover genomic data security, including HIPAA, GINA, and GDPR. HIPAA, or the Health Insurance Portability and...
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