Hospitals test genome sequencing for newborns in study
NIH grants totaling 20 million fund pilot tests of sequencing newborns in Boston, San Francisco, Kansas City, and North Carolina. Research at UCSF, UC Berkeley, UNC, Brigham and Women’s, Boston Children’s, and Children’s Mercy explores medical, privacy, and ethical implications, with 50 hour turnaround.
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National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
National Human Genome Research Institute
Amistad finances rallying to salvage iconic flagship status
Connecticut faces a collapse of the AmistadAmerica nonprofit which built and maintained the Freedom Schooner Amistad as the official flagship. The group has run deficits, lost tax exempt status, and its board shrank while the vessel sails with Ocean Classroom for a Maine sailing school and a Puerto Rico film project. An external audit is underway to probe financial irregularities and compliance questions.
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Amistad America
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Ocean Classroom Foundation
Amistad Group
Ocean Classroom
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Belanger
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NASA LADEE to probe moon dust and exospheres
NASA plans the LADEE mission to study electrically charged lunar dust and the moon’s exosphere from Wallops Flight Facility. The $280 million small spacecraft will test a laser optical comms system and inform future planetary probes including a Mars rover planned for 2020.
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Global food prices ease as FAO projects record 2013-14 cereals
The FAO reports August prices down about 1.9 percent from July with the index at 201.8, signaling a likely bottom. It lifts 2013-14 cereal production to a record 2.492 billion tons, with coarse grains up 10.5 percent and wheat up 7.6 percent, boosting stocks to 569 million tons the highest since 2001-02.
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