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Supreme Court hears Roundup case that could limit Americans' ability to sue pesticide companies

The Supreme Court could limit Americans’ ability to sue pesticide-makers over alleged health harms from their products in a case that saw oral arguments on Monday. At issue is whether people can sue pesticide-makers such as Monsanto for failing to warn consumers of alleged health harms stemming from their products. The company asked the court……

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Telomere-to-Telomere Assembly Using HERRO-Corrected Simplex Nanopore Reads

Telomere-to-telomere (T2T) phased assemblies are emerging as a benchmark for reference-quality genomes1,17, though they remain technically and financially demanding, particularly at scale. Generating such assemblies for diploid and polyploid genomes typically involves combining high-accuracy long reads, such as PacBio HiFi16 or the now-deprecated ONT Duplex2 reads, with ultra-long ONT Simplex reads. Using multiple platforms or…

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Ex-Sen. Ben Sasse: ‘Congress is not wrestling with big or important questions’  

Former Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse (R) in a new interview published Monday said Congress was not “wrestling” with big or important questions, hammering both the Republican and Democratic party for not grappling with more forward-looking subject matter.  “Neither of these parties really have very big or good ideas about 2030 or 2050, at a national……

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Trump demands ABC fire Jimmy Kimmel

President Donald Trump is calling for Disney to fire Jimmy Kimmel. On Thursday, Kimmel joked that Melania Trump had looked like an “expectant widow” in a skit about the upcoming White House Correspondents’ Dinner. The skit aired days before an armed gunman made an assassination attempt at the event, which President Trump and Melania Trump…

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