Links for you. Science:
PLACNETw: a web-based tool for plasmid reconstruction from bacterial genomes
US is slipping toward measles being endemic once again
The digital native is a myth
Chipotle Says Sick Employee Caused Virginia Norovirus Outbreak
Honey Bees, Antibiotics and Gut Microbia
Other:
No, Sen. Schumer, don’t turn the page. Now is Democrats’ chance to attack and change minds (ugh, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory)
Let’s stop saying nobody is actually from DC (I’m from D.C., and I’m somebody!)
Here’s A National Single-Payer Health Care Plan That Would Work (more details here; one thing I don’t like are the adjustable rates–seems complicated to implement)
Jim Vance Will Be Featured In Smithsonian’s African American History Museum
The Bankruptcies That Would Follow an Obamacare Repeal
Trump and Republicans treat their voters like morons (or, maybe, their voters don’t care about policy at all–they’re Palinists)
Schumer Prepares To Throw Away A Chance To Beat Dean Heller in Nevada With Another Garbage Blue Dog
The military spends five times as much on Viagra as it would on transgender troops’ medical care
Trump WMATA Board Pick: ‘We Need To Shake Things Up’ (I have doubts this will work out well)
How Electronic Health Records Degrade Care and Endanger Patients
D.C. ‘Rolled Out the Red Carpet’ for a Company Accused of Wage Fraud
Steve Bannon Has a Good Idea, Not That He’s Going to Do Anything About It
Wells Fargo at It Again, Stuck Over 800,000 Customers With Unnecessary Car Insurance (looking forward, not back strikes again!)
Watch The Shocking Moment John McCain Killed The Republican Health Care Bill
Lest We Forget (End of the American Century Update)
Tobacco Shares Plunge After FDA Proposes Cut to Cigarette Nicotine
mikethemadbiologist
FFS – cutting nicotine levels?!?
It is the therapeutic ingredient, you know. Think smokers do not have right to enjoy unadulterated product?
Why not eliminate alcohol from beer, wine, and liquor? Shall we outlaw corn syrup, sugared drinks, prime meats? Diabetes and obesity kill more people than cigarettes.
Is THC addictive? Let’s broaden the remit of the FDA!
This is very bad policy.