People who suffer from celiac disease may not need to avoid pasta forever: scientists are developing a pill that would allow them to eat gluten.
Scientists at the University of Alberta are working on a pill made from chicken egg yolks that could help people with celiac disease digest gluten, Quartz reports.
Scientists have developed an interactive tool to help researchers and clinicians explore the genetic underpinnings of cancer.
The tool – Mutation Annotation and Genome Interpretation (Magi) – is an open-source web application that enables users to search, visualise, and annotate large public cancer genetic datasets, including data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) project.
“Magi lets users explore these data in a regular web browser and with no computational expertise required,” said Max Leiserson, lead developer of the tool.
In addition to viewing TCGA data, it also allows users to upload their own data and compare their results to those in the larger databases.
Over the last decade, researchers working with TCGA have sequenced genes from thousands of tumours and dozens of cancer types in an effort to understand which mutations contribute to the development of cancer.
At the same time, as sequencing has gotten faster and cheaper, individual researchers have begun sequencing samples from their own studies, sometimes from just a few tumours.
During the Cold War, back when Richard “Dickie” George was a mathematician at the National Security Agency, security meant something different than it does today. The foes knew one another well. And if there was plenty of skulduggery to go around, at least there were some recognizable rules of engagement.
“Back when it was us and the Soviets, there was about one big espionage event every 10 years,” he said, speaking at theHealthcare IT News Privacy & Security Forum in Chicago on Tuesday.
In the 21st Century, the threat landscape is very, very different, said George, now a senior advisor for cybersecurity atJohns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab.
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The four-hospital UCLA Health System on Friday notified a staggering 4.5 million of its patients that their protected health information and Social Security numbers were compromised following one of the largest HIPAA breaches ever reported.
Despite the cyberattack having occurred nearly a year ago, in September 2014, officials did not notify patients until July 17. UCLA first detected suspicious activity on its networks back in October 2014, according to a company statement.
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced that the company would be scaling down its mobile phone hardware business. Nadella called the company’s dramatic course change a “restructuring.” He used phrases like “effective and focused” and “long-term reinvention and mobility.” But make no mistake: Today’s announcement (7,800 layoffs and a $7.6 billion write-off, mostly related to Microsoft’s phone business and its purchase of Nokia last year) is a letter of surrender.
