University of Washington
Edmond Fischer Dies
Edmond Fischer, who won the 1992 Nobel Prize for his work on reversible protein phosphorylation, has died at 101, the Washington Post reports.
Multiple studies are showing that long reads can deliver results where short reads can't, but many barriers remain on the road to the clinic.
Don't Find Me to Bite
Researchers have used CRISPR to alter mosquitoes so that they might not be able to find targets to bite, the New York Times reports.
A home-collected dry swab protocol showed 100 percent sensitivity and 99.4 percent specificity versus extraction-based RT-qPCR.
PNAS Papers on Rat Clues to Human Migration, Thyroid Cancer, PolyG-DS
In PNAS this week: ancient rat genome analysis gives hints to human migrations, WDR77 gene mutations in thyroid cancer, and more.
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