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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/01/louisianas-disappearing-coast

https://higlass.io/

Geneticist Sydney Brenner, who made tiny worm a scientific legend, dies

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01128-3

You know kilo, mega, and giga. Is the metric system ready for ronna and quecca? | Science | AAAS

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/02/you-know-kilo-mega-and-giga-metric-system-ready-ronna-and-quecca

https://medicine.yale.edu/news/medicineatyale/new-center-to-harness-burgeoning-data.aspx

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It is a kind of “data fusion,” adds Mark B. Gerstein, PhD, Albert L. Williams Professor of Biomedical Informatics, professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry, of computer science, and of statistics and data science, and CBDS co-director. “We’re integrating all the different types of data together, and that’s just something that is hard to do in a completely generic, automated way. You need to think about what you’re putting together.”
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https://www.pnas.org/content/110/45/18037

https://www.lungmap.net/
https://www.lungmap.net/about/lungmap-team/cincinnati-childrens-hospital-medical-center/

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/us/college-admissions-cheating-scandal.html

amusing…
The story has an interesting mendelian disease angle.
https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-need-more-cat-dna-and-lil-bub-is-here-to-help/

Scientists Need More Cat DNA, and Lil Bub is Here to Help
WIRED
Unusual DNA helped make Lil Bub a cat celebrity. Now that genetic data could improve medical care for cats without millions of Instagram followers. Read the full story

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MARCH 2019

Untangling the Formation of DNA Loops

New discoveries on ancient loops in DNA offer clues into gene regulation

By Erez Lieberman Aiden

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/untangling-the-formation-of-dna-loops/