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Fisher Chairman s Plane Crash Tops Most-Read GenomeWeb News Stories Last Week

Jan 30, 2006

NEW YORK, Jan. 30 (GenomeWeb News) - What are GenomeWeb News subscribers reading? Below are the five most-read articles for the five-day period ended Friday, Jan. 27.

 

1. Fisher's Jellinek Dies in Plane Crash; Cepheid's Winn-Deen Wins AACC Award; Exagen Names Mignatti President; Agilent, PerkinElmer, and 454 Appoint New VPs; and Others (from Jan. 25)

2. A Phred for Every Platform? Next-Gen Sequencers Assess Quality of Their Data (from Jan. 23)

3. ABI Reports 4-Percent Revenue Growth in Fiscal Q2; RT-PCR Sales Surge as Sequencing Suffers (from Jan. 25)

4. LabCorp Licenses Seryx's CYP450 Service (from Jan. 23)

5. IDT Opens San Diego Oligo Facility, Plans to Increase Staff in Iowa HQ (from Jan. 26)

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And For Adolescents

The US Food and Drug Administration has authorized the Pfizer-BioNTech SARS-CoV-2 vaccine for children between the ages of 12 and 15 years old.

Also of Concern to WHO

The Wall Street Journal reports that the World Health Organization has classified the SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.617 as a "variant of concern."

Test for Them All

The New York Times reports on the development of combined tests for SARS-CoV-2 and other viruses like influenza.

PNAS Papers on Oral Microbiome Evolution, Snake Toxins, Transcription Factor Binding

In PNAS this week: evolution of oral microbiomes among hominids, comparative genomic analysis of snake toxins, and more.