The Washington Post reports that the White House chief of staff has asked the US Food and Drug Administration to justify the stricter standards it is seeking for a coronavirus vaccine.

Test Evaluations

UK Royal Statistical Society is organizing a working group to develop guidelines for assessing COVID-19 tests, the Guardian reports.

Concerns Over Comment

President Donald Trump's "good genes" comment raises eugenics concerns, CNN reports.

PLOS Papers on Tremor Condition, Medical Plant Populations, Brewing Yeast Transcriptomics

In PLOS this week: genetic analysis of tremor condition, analysis of a West and Central African tree used in traditional medicine, and more.

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Efficient DNA Extractions for CRISPR Toolkits

Compatibility of liquid biopsy assays on multiple sequencing platforms

Sequencing the Unsequenceable: FFPE Sample Processing for Successful Target Enrichment

CAS-CLOVER The clean alternative to CRISPR/Cas9 for gene editing in the drug discovery and development industry

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28

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How Low Can You Go? Reduce Breeding Costs with an Optimized Genotyping and Analysis Strategy

Molecular breeding methods such as genomic selection and genome-wide association studies often require high-density genotypic data from many samples, but the cost and complexity of genotyping at this scale may be prohibitive.

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11

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Leveraging Genomics to Accelerate Genetic Improvement in Aquaculture

Selective breeding represents an efficient approach to increase production of aquaculture species by means of improving traits, such as rapid growth, product quality, and disease resistance.

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NCI s Louis Staudt on RNAi and Molecular Targets in Cancer

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FDA Grants Emergency Use Authorization for Genetrack Biolabs SARS-CoV-2 Molecular Assay

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Cerebral Palsy Genomic Study Points to Rare Damaging Mutations as Disease Contributors

Dozens of Genetic Loci Influence Handedness, GWAS Meta-Analysis Finds

The Scan

Justification for Stricter Standards Sought