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In Flint, Mich., Lead Crisis Moves From Homes to Schools
The city’s schools, stretched even before the lead crisis, are struggling with demands for individualized education programs and behavioral interventions for children with high lead exposure.
Reanalysis of Alzheimer's Brain Sequencing Data Reveals Absence of Purported HHV6A and HHV7
Readhead et al. recently reported in Neuron the detection and association of Human Herpesviruses 6A (HHV6A) and 7 (HHV7) with Alzheimer's disease by shotgun sequencing. I was skeptical of the specificity of their modified Viromescan bioinformatics...
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Repurposing the aldose reductase inhibitor and diabetic neuropathy drug epalrestat for the congenital disorder of glycosylation PMM2-CDG
Phosphomannomutase 2 deficiency, or PMM2-CDG, is the most common congenital disorder of glycosylation and affects over 1000 patients globally. There are no approved drugs that treat the symptoms or root cause of PMM2-CDG. To identify clinically...
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The implementation of newborn screening for spinal muscular atrophy: the Australian experience
The implementation of newborn screening for spinal muscular atrophy: the Australian experience
Quantifying the polygenic contribution to variable expressivity in eleven rare genetic disorders
Rare genetic disorders (RGDs) often exhibit significant clinical variability among affected individuals. Here, Oetjens et al. systematically study the contribution of common genetic variation to variable expressivity of RGDs and find it is...
ARMC9 and TOGARAM1 define a Joubert syndrome-associated protein module that regulates axonemal post-translational modifications and cilium stability
Joubert Syndrome (JBTS) is a recessive neurodevelopmental ciliopathy, characterized by a pathognomonic hindbrain malformation. All known JBTS-genes encode proteins involved in the structure or function of primary cilia, ubiquitous antenna-like...
Viewpoint: Feynman, Harassment, and the Culture of Science
Viewpoint articles are a vehicle for members of the Caltech community to express their opinions on issues surrounding the interface of science and society. The...
Research: When Losing Out on a Big Opportunity Helps Your Career
A study of 1,000 early-career scientists.
Here’s How Amazon Alexa Will Recognize When You’re Frustrated
OneZero spoke to Rohit Prasad, chief scientist for Alexa, about the new tone-detecting feature
Google Says Google Translate Can’t Replace Human Translators. Immigration Officials Have Used It to Vet Refugees.
Documents shared with ProPublica show that immigration officials have been told to vet refugees’ social media posts using Google Translate. Language experts caution even students against using the service.
Department of Justice Announces Interim Policy on Emerging Method to Generate Leads for Unsolved Violent Crimes
Today, the Department of Justice announced its Interim Policy on forensic genetic genealogy (FGG), an emerging investigative technique that will combine technological advancements in DNA analysis and searching with traditional geneology research....
NLRB Proposal Would Make Student Workers Ineligible to Unionize
Graduate teaching assistants and other student workers at private universities and colleges wouldn’t qualify for federal protections that grant most private-sector workers the right to form or join a union under a new regulatory proposal.
Progress on the representation of women in JGP
In July 2018, JGP instituted a new policy requiring that every paper sent out for review would be seen by at least one female reviewer; I refer to that policy here as Reviewer Equity ([Gordon, 2018][1]). One year on, it is time to examine the...