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  1. A "cell village" is a novel experimental platform where neural progenitor cells from dozens of genetically distinct donors are grown together in a single, shared culture. This approach allows scientists to accurately measure each donor's individual cell fitness—specifically how well their cells grow, divide, and survive—under perfectly identical environmental conditions.
    #HumanGenetics #ComputationalMedicine #Neurobiology #StemCellBiology #Toxicology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/08/gen08042601

  2. ‘Deletions’ From the Human Genome May Be What Made Us Human:
    The loss of about 10,000 bits of DNA over the course of our evolutionary history helped differentiate us from other mammals, a team of Yale researchers found.

    news.yale.edu/2023/04/27/delet

    #genetics #evolution #dna #molecularbiology #scientificreports #HumanGenetics #humangenome