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Genetic mutations can be benign or cancerous – a new method to differentiate between them could lead to better treatments

  • Written by Ryan Layer, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder
Genetic mutations can be benign or cancerous – a new method to differentiate between them could lead to better treatmentsIdentifying the difference between normal genetic variation and disease-causing mutations can sometimes be difficult.Andrii Yalanskyi/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Most of the roughly 40 trillion cells of your body have nearly identical copies of your genome – the DNA inherited from your parents, containing instructions for everything from...

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