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Weekly Reading List: July 7, 2025

’We couldn’t live without it’: the UCSC Genome Browser turns 25After a quarter of a century, the website remains an essential tool for navigating the genome and understanding its structure, function and clinical impact.NatureMichael EisensteinThe Percentage of Tasks AI Agents Are Currently Failing At May Spell Trouble for

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Weekly Reading List: June 30,2025

Palm Beach Gardens Man wants to revive disgraced Theranos brandA local inventor is trying to make a name for himself in a rather unusual way.WPECMike MagnoliEric Green was the first institute director forced out of NIH. He still hasn’t been told whyEric Green said the process leading to

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Weekly Reading List: June, 23 2025

Gene therapy faces fresh uncertainty as two more top FDA officials departThe reported dismissal of high-ranking CBER officials Nicole Verdun and Rachael Anatol resurfaced lingering concerns about how gene therapies will be regulated under new FDA leadership.BioPharma DiveBen FidlerFDA blocks new clinical trials that ship cells from US to

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Weekly Reading List: June 16, 2025

Time for Congress to save American science … and the nationWe believe the best hope for saving science and, perhaps, saving our form of democracy, is convincing at least a couple dozen Republican members of Congress that it’s up to them—that the stakes require exercising the prerogatives of the

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Weekly Reading List: June 9, 2025

Scientists worry about possible publishing banHHS secretary Kennedy says the US might launch alternatives to leading medical journalsAmerican Chemical SocietyDalmeet Singh Chawla, special to C&ENEfficient mRNA delivery to resting T cells to reverse HIV latency - Nature CommunicationsResting T cells are difficult to manipulate, and are a reservoir

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Weekly Reading List: June 2, 2025

Rare ‘ambidextrous’ protein breaks rules of handednessMost proteins are left-handed, but scientists have found an ancient molecule that works in both mirror-image forms.NatureEwen CallawayEuropean Sperm Donor Passes on Cancer Predisposition Variant to at Least 23 ChildrenA donor to a European sperm bank has transmitted a likely pathogenic variant for

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Weekly Reading List: May 26, 2025

Covid 2020: An intimate look at health worker’s lives amid a global crisisTheatre nurse David Collyer wanted to shoot a documentary photography project in the last years of the Welsh hospital he worked in. Then Covid-19 appeared.BBCStephen DowlingIn its flagship journal, the CDC keeps publishing papers after firing

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Weekly Reading List: May 19, 2025

A bespoke CRISPR therapy suggests a blueprint for treating ‘N-of-1’ diseasesA gene editing drug custom-made for a critically ill baby showed that, for some ultra-rare diseases, it’s possible to design and test a new CRISPR medicine in just a few months.BioPharma DiveBen FidlerDNA origami signal amplification in lateral

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Weekly Reading List: May 12, 2025

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Weekly Reading List: April, 28 2025

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Weekly Reading List: April 24, 2025

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Weekly Reading List: April 14, 2025

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Weekly Reading List: Apr 7, 2025

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Weekly Reading List: Mar 31, 2025

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Weekly Reading List: Mar 17, 2025

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Weekly Reading List: Feb 24, 2025

Roche Announces SBX Technology, Creates Sequencing BuzzRoche introduces Sequencing by Expansion (SBX) technology in a webinar just a few days before the AGBT meeting takes place in Florida.GEN - Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology NewsJulianna LeMieux, PhDSequencing by Expansion SBX | Nanopore sequencingSequencing by expansion (SBX) offers a new paradigm in

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Weekly Reading List: Feb 17, 2025

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Weekly Reading List: Jan 13, 2025