Sequencing project IDs genes that may drive growth of brain cancers; Radiation for the heart

Doctors are zapping the heart with radiation normally reserved for cancer, a bid to better treat arrhythmia.

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Courtesy Marcos Amend/Pulsar Imagens Vast sequencing project begins to unlock human genome's secrets — by deciphering other mammals' DNA The Zoonomia Project compared the genomes of 240 mammalian species to find DNA regions that remained mostly unchanged over 100 million years. By Jonathan Wosen STAT+ | FDA warns of security vulnerability in Illumina's DNA sequencing machines The agency warned health care providers that the DNA sequencers could be remotely tampered with. Illumina has created a software patch for the machines. By Matthew Herper Putting radiation to the test to heal irregular heartbeat Doctors are zapping the heart with radiation normally reserved for cancer, a bid to better treat people with irregular heartbeats. By Lauran Neergaard — Associated Press

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