Washington Post |
She modeled in New York and worked for the Navy. At 93, parasites ate her alive at a nursing home.
Washington Post Pictures of Rebecca Zeni during her younger years showed her with flawless skin, well-defined eyebrows and long, thick lashes. Her hair, parted in the middle, was neatly tied with a bow behind her ear. Her beauty could capture a room, her daughter said ... |
Slate Magazine |
In These Dark Days For Romaine, Which Lettuce Is Objectively the Best Lettuce?
Slate Magazine The Great Romaine Crisis of 2018 rages on. Last Friday brought news of 14 more people and three more states affected by an E. coli outbreak linked to romaine lettuce grown in the Yuma, Arizona region, bringing the tally up to 98 people and 22 states ... 16 people in California fall ill due to E. coli in romaine lettuce |
Forbes |
George Church, CRISPR Pioneer, Embraces Alternative Tech In Project To Recode A Human Genome
Forbes George Church, a Harvard scientist who pioneered the use of the enzyme CRISPR to edit the genes of human cells, will use an alternative, older technology in an effort to recode an entire human genome in hundreds of thousands of locations in order to ... “Project Recode” aims to make human cells invulnerable to infection |
Science Magazine |
Federal appeals court hears CRISPR patent dispute
Science Magazine Here's a double-negative brain twister with potentially huge financial ramifications and a Nobel Prize resting on the answer: For an invention to be “nonobvious”—and therefore patentable in the United States—should there be no guarantee of success ... All You Need to Know for Round 2 of the CRISPR Patent Fight Federal Appeals Court Hears Patent Case for Gene-Editing Tool US appellate judges seem divided on gene editing patents decision |
NBC Chicago |
University of Chicago Launches Adult Trauma Center
NBC Chicago A much-needed resource opens on Chicago's South Side Tuesday, as the University of Chicago was slated to launch its Level 1 trauma center. For years, community activists fought for the facility, saying that victims of gunshot wounds, crashes, burns on ... |