Hello and welcome to my Nuzzel newsletter!
Vijai Joseph
(Geneticist @MSKCC, NEW YORK. Interested in Cancer Genomics, Bioinformatics, GWAS, gene regulation, variant annotations and nextgen-sequencing.)
Question Can population-level genomic screening identify those at risk for disease? Findings In this cross-sectional study of an unselected population cohort of 50 726 adults who underwent exome sequencing, pathogenic and likely pathogenic…
The Washington Post
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Robert Costa, Elise Viebeck
– Sep 21, 8:14 AM
A conservative legal commentator and former clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia on Friday denied communicating with the White House or Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh about his theory that the woman accusing Kavanaugh of sexual assault while they were…
The New York Times
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Katie Hafner
– Sep 21, 7:27 AM
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — By now, Sally and Bennett Shaywitz might have retired to a life of grandchild-doting and Mediterranean-cruising. Instead, the Shaywitzes — experts in dyslexia at Yale who have been married to each other for 55 years…
The New York Times
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Greg Hampikian
– Sep 21, 9:00 AM
Before you give the police a DNA sample, read an alarming new study of crime laboratories published this summer, the largest study of its kind. Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology gave the same DNA mixture to about…
It had been hiding in plain sight. The original letter — long thought lost — in which Galileo Galilei first set down his arguments against the church's doctrine that the Sun orbits the Earth has been discovered in a misdated library…
