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Clinical and Lab Cancer Genetics. Chair Dept Human Genetics, McGill. “I saw no need to paint the sky”.
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In 1755, the English writer Samuel Johnson wrote “the mind can only repose on the stability of truth”. How relevant that seems now. Whose mind can be in repose today?

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www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...

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1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt. Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.

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📣Excited to share our paper in Nature Genetics! rdcu.be/d7mo0 Do plasma proteins mediate obesity’s effect on CAD risk? →Using two-step proteome-wide MR, domain-aware MR, epigenomics & scRNA-seq, we prioritized endotrophin, cleaved from COL6A3, as a mediator & potential therapeutic target. A 🧵↓

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Here is your self-care checklist for today and everyday! 💛🧡💚💙💜

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Just joined bluesky. Seemed like a good time to have a look around. The bird died but the butterfly lives, it seems

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