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Stanford Medicine teams discover biomarkers that predict common and serious pregnancy complications

Stanford Medicine teams discover biomarkers that predict common and serious pregnancy complications

They aimed to identify a small set of signals detectable during the first 16 weeks of pregnancy that could form the basis of a simple and inexpensive diagnostic test that can be used in low-, middle- and high-income countries. To estimate the accuracy of the machine learning models, the researchers first built the models with …

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Discover Squeegee: a new contamination detection tool for microbiomes with low microbial biomass

Discover Squeegee: a new contamination detection tool for microbiomes with low microbial biomass

One of the main challenges in microbiome science has been to distinguish what is a potential environmental contaminant from a true authentic microbiome signal in low biomass studies – studies that contain little microbial DNA like breast milk. , placenta or amniotic fluid. For example, it may be difficult to differentiate the DNA of a …

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