Number Crunch: Celeras Spending

Jul 01, 2001

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What it costs to run a sequencing facility at full clip, according to Gene Myers, Celera''s vice president for informatics research

$1 million annual electric bill

$2 million monthly reagent bill

Alzheimer's Risk Gene Among Women

CNN reports that researchers have found that variants in MGMT contribute to Alzheimer's disease risk among women but not men.

The Guardian writes that persistent pockets of SARS-CoV-2 in the body could contribute to long COVID.

Enteric viruses like norovirus may also be transmitted through saliva, not just the fecal-oral route, according to New Scientist.

In Nature this week: VASA-seq approach to detect full transcriptome, analysis of viruses infecting Asgard archaea, and more.