USDA

The Washington Post reports that the USDA issued fewer citations to animal facilities, including research labs, pet breeders, and zoos, last year.

Federal researchers tell the Los Angeles Times that the shutdown is causing missed research opportunities as they try to keep their experiments going.

ScienceInsider describes the effects of the partial government shutdown in the US on science.

In PLOS this week: statistical approach for finding somatic mutation-based associations, genomic and methylomic patterns in virulent and non-virulent forms of a swine respiratory pathogen, and more.

In Nucleic Acids Research this week: Pseudomonas aeruginosa reference database, online catalog of genomic regions under selection in humans, and more.

The Scientist reports agricultural researchers are working on a gene-stacking tool.

The Trump Administration has proposed a plan to reorganize the federal government, the Washington Post reports.