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...research team lead by scientists at the Broad Institute has developed a new tool that uses unique genetic patterns to link specific illnesses with potential treatments...
...analogy is pretty good. In our search box, you can upload a list of genes, and with one click, the analysis is computed,” said Justin Lamb, the lead author of the Science paper and a senior scientist in the Broad Institute’s Cancer program. “The philosophy is also very much the same as a search engine like Google. Our program is free, and it is a tool that can allow scientists to generate information cheaply and fast...
...federal government feels that young Americans are being minted with bachelor’s degrees without basic literacy and quantitative skills, it should perhaps reconsider its massive funding cuts to school districts across the country before suggesting that colleges take up the slack. Colleges, instead, are charged with cultivating broad understandings of the world and producing citizens who are productive and curious members of our society. Little of this, however, can be tracked by an expensive and cumbersome apparatus of surveys and statisticians...
...later years she lived with us, and we would go to Mass together. She was barely literate, the seventh of 13 children. And she could rattle off the Hail Mary with the speed and subtlety of a NASCAR lap. There were times when she embarrassed me--with her broad Irish brogue and reflexive deference to clerical authority. Couldn't she genuflect a little less deeply and pray a little less loudly? And then, as I winced at her volume in my quiet church, I saw that she was utterly oblivious to those around her. She was someplace else. And there...
Indeed, just as important as his VES degree was the time Bujalski spent simply hanging out at the Harvard Film Archive or the Brattle. His tastes are broad: ask him what the last good film he saw was, and he’ll tell you “Predator”; ask him about the impact of studio “specialty divisions” like Focus Features, and he’ll tell you that a great film can come from anywhere—the streets, a specialty division, or a big studio...