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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/

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“As he grew in his profession, Six came to feel he had a right to express himself on the family collection. A series of clashes with his father ensued, many of them about providing greater public access, which has always been a difficulty. Currently, tours of the
collection, which are by appointment only, are booked into next year. The picture that the younger Six sketched was of an inward-looking father who is trying to preserve a legacy by keeping the world at bay, who comes to realize over time that he also has to do battle with a gregarious and extroverted son who feels that the way to preserve that legacy is precisely by sharing it with the wider world. The battles left the younger Six progressively more exasperated: “I would cycle home after and think, Jesus, Dad, I’m trying to help you.””
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Rembrandt in the Blood: An Obsessive Aristocrat, Rediscovered Paintings and an Art-World Feud
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/magazine/rembrandt-jan-six.html

https://www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-releases/senators-markey-and-hawley-introduce-bipartisan-legislation-to-update-childrens-online-privacy-rules

Balanced perspective on history and future of genomic medicine by Jay Shendure https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(19)30152-7