This week brought 4 major new Nature papers on genomics. Over the next 20 years, the findings they report, will: 1) materially impact...

A decade ago, Doug McConnell and family embarked on a journey to raise money to support scientific research against ALS. "A Long Swim"...

As it said it would do, J&J filed a cert petition seeking review of the Ingham verdict against it and others. The verdict involved 22...

Last week's workshop on the path to update the federal Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence is summarized in a cogent and insightful...

Planning continues this week for the Fourth Edition of the federal Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence. The event is an open access...

The "botometer" is an online, open access source for assessing whether a twitter account likely is run by a bot. ...

Knowledge spreads at different paces. A July 2019 article from Clyde & Co. notes a January 2019 medical review article on prostate cancer...

A July 5, 2019 book review by Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution describes in a glowing terms a book that sounds interesting with respect...

Once upon a time, way back a decade ago, single gene testing often occurred during investigation of diseases. Those days are essentially...

The appeal is underway for Monsanto from the verdict in the DeWayne Johnson case. Numerous stories spin the papers. For those who prefer...

Two flu shots per year may become the standard, along with increases in “boosters” for other vaccines. Why? Because increasing data shows...

The abstract pasted below was not an April fool’s joke. To the contrary, it illustrated the increasing efforts to combine in silico and...

Amazing to see some of the broad new uses for DNA. They include analysis of underground DNA to decide where to drill oil wells. Really;...

For yesterday’s editorial from the American Statistical Association, and more, go to “Moving to a World Beyond “p < 0.05.” For the paper...

Hopefully this incredible machine will help researchers against cancer fulfill  Jeff Huber’s call to “find a better way” to take on...

The times they are a changing. The other day, I stumbled across the Clinical Robotics Law Journal, after being intrigued by a February...

From a March 7, 2019 post at the Torts Prof blog, two interesting new SSRN abstracts on tort issues arising due to the rapid increasingly...

It is depressing to read about the havoc wreaked in some cases by apparently not credible “blood splatter science,” and some other fringe...

More and more molecular data will arrive over the next few years; some of it will be very valuable for more deeply understanding when and...

An answer to the question, and some good background, is set out in a December 14, 2018 article at StatNews. What’s a polygenic risk score...