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Adapting clinical chemistry plasma as a source for liquid biopsies.

Ding SC; Yu J; Liao T; Ahmann L; Yao Y; Ho C; Wang L; Pinsky BA; Gu W

Researchers found that leftover plasma from blood tests can be used to get DNA without special tubes. They studied samples from healthy people and patients, showing that regular test tubes worked almost as well as special tubes. This could make it easier to do more DNA tests in hospitals.

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Evidence of off-target probe binding affecting 10x Genomics Xenium gene panels compromise accuracy of spatial transcriptomic profiling.

Hallinan C; Ji HJ; Tsou E; Salzberg SL; Fan J

Scientists studied how certain tools used to look at genes in specific areas can sometimes make mistakes by sticking to the wrong genes. They made a new tool called OPT to help find these mistakes and tested it on some gene samples. They found that a few genes were affected by this problem, and their tool helped understand and fix it to get more accurate results.

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