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1. Two Charts:

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(Source: unctad.org)

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(Sources: asia.nikkei.com, openrouter.ai)

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2. Broad Institute:

For researchers on the hunt for the genetic roots of disease, the cost of deep whole-genome sequencing makes it challenging to conduct large genetic studies involving thousands of participants, which are needed to reveal new genetic insights. So scientists at the Broad Institute came up with a clever approach, called the Blended Genome Exome (BGE), that lowers the cost of sequencing by 75 percent and is becoming one of the most commonly used sequencing methods at the Broad.

Now those researchers have published the first scientific paper describing BGE’s utility, showing that the method generates high-quality data at a much lower cost than the current gold-standard of deep whole-genome sequencing. The study, in Nature Genetics, is from scientists in the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad and Broad Clinical Labs.