Genetics company launches huge open-access database
Genetic-testing company Ambry Genetics has launched a huge database of cancer-patient genetics, freely available to the public...
Dr Isobel Steer is a Volunteer Writer at BioNews, and is also a researcher at Imperial College London on medical diagnostic devices. She also obtained her PhD at Imperial developing a device to study protein-DNA interactions. She previously studied Biological Sciences at the University of Oxford, where she wrote for and edited magazines including Bang! and Phenotype. She tweets as @isosteer.
Genetic-testing company Ambry Genetics has launched a huge database of cancer-patient genetics, freely available to the public...
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