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COPH team wins large scientific challenge on human genome research

Pathogenicity prediction isn’t a subject we discuss over our morning coffee, but it could be a topic of greater interest as it affects more and more lives, according to a researcher at USF’s Genomics Program at the College of Public Health (COPH).

May 9, 2025Global - Environmental - Genomic Health Sciences, Research and Innovation

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Genomic research may be key to understanding cancer resistance in Tasmanian devils

Over the past 30 years, Australia’s Tasmanian devil population has been afflicted with an infectious cancer. Through DNA sequencing of the animals and their tumors, USF Assistant Professor of Integrative Biology Mark Margres and MSPH in genomics alumnus Dylan Gallinson have tracked the genomic interactions between the devils and the cancer.

May 28, 2024

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