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02/21/2020

Hot Topics of the Day are picked by experts to capture the latest information and publications on public health genomics and precision health for various diseases and health topics. Sources include published scientific literature, reviews, blogs and popular press articles.

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Powerful antibiotics discovered using AI- Machine learning spots molecules that work even against ‘untreatable’ strains of bacteria.
J Marchant, Nature, February 20, 2020

A pioneering machine-learning approach has identified powerful new types of antibiotic from a pool of more than 100 million molecules — including one that works against a wide range of bacteria, including tuberculosis and strains considered untreatable.

Microbiome goes to the ICU
S Sengupta, Science, February 19, 2020

The study of the microbiome has yielded fascinating insights. In the lung, we have moved from considering it sterile to proving that the lung microbiome has a definite role in specific disease conditions. However, the failure to link differences in lung microbiota to clinically meaningful outcomes in a more generalized context has remained a limitation.

The Married Researchers Racing to Stop Prion Disease
S Minikel Vallabh et al, Scientific American, March 2020

By the end of the year, we knew that Sonia had indeed inherited the dreaded mutation. Since then, we have been on a mission. Success means keeping Sonia’s brain, and those of others like her, healthy and fully functional for years or decades, hopefully for a lifetime.


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