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Biden Unveils Open-Access Database To Advance Cancer Research (go.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ABC News: Vice President Joe Biden unveiled a public database for clinical data on cancer on Monday that aims to help researchers and doctors better tailor new treatments to individuals. Overseen by the National Cancer Institute, the Genomic Data Commons starts with genomic and clinical data for 12,000 patients. The system is designed to increase sharing of information about the gene sequences of tumors and how patients with those tumors responded to specific treatments. "The information is scattered among different government and academic repositories. Most of it is out of the reach of scientists," Biden said. "We're bringing it into one space." Though easily searchable, the database includes protections for privacy and security, Biden said. He urged cancer experts gathered in Chicago to "upload your raw genomic data" to the system for use by fellow researchers. "All of you know it's the right thing to do," Biden said. "It's the quickest way for us to move forward. And it's not technically hard for us to do it." You can read the key features of the GDC via The White House here.
Off topic but I'll bite...
If we had a better voting system, then the party primaries wouldn't really matter all that much. There would be no more voting for the person most likely to beat the guy you hate most on the other side. Instead of literally only having the choice of voting against HRC or Trump, we might actually get to choose a candidate we want.
The problem isn't the candidates. It's the system that inevitably pits these awful candidates against each other as the only choice.
http://www.cgpgrey.com/politic...
All my liberal friends think I'm a conservative, all my conservative friends think I'm a liberal.
Insert here "what could possibly go wrong with a single, national government database of DNA sequences ..."? "C'mon, you know it's the right thing to do..."
When I'm president, we're going to have magnificent databases. The best databases, not loser databases like Biden's. Just tremendous, tremendous databases. We'll make Latvia pay for it, and there won't be any Mexican DNA in that database either, until we can figure out what's going on. We're going to have DNA that'll make your head spin.
You are welcome on my lawn.
rightwingers rapidly assemble around the opposite - even for ideas they originally proposed.
Mmm... *grabs popcorn*, I am looking forward to watching the republicans become pro-cancer. I can't imagine what the arguments will look like but I bet they'll include the phrase "will of God" at least 50 times.
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>So far, the only downsides to cannabis legalization have been prison guard layoffs, and the extra burden on politicians that have to figure out how to spend all the money from dope sales taxes.
So the obvious solution is to use the dope sales taxes to fund employing the former prison guards in public works projects ?
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