F35B Lands on Wasp, Launching Era of Increased Navy-Marine Corps Sea-based Capabilities
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East China Sea - A detachment of F-35B Lightning II's with Fighter Attack Squadron 121 (VMFA-121) arrived aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1) March 5, marking the first time the aircraft has deployed aboard a U.S. Navy ship and with a Marine Expeditionary Unit in the Indo-Pacific.
Synthetic biologist hopes to develop treatments for cancer and other diseases
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Cambridge, Massachusetts - In high school and college, Timothy Lu spent a lot of time programming computers. But as his college graduation approached, he turned his attention toward programming biological systems. The field of synthetic biology was just beginning to emerge, and he wanted to be part of it.
Private browsing gets more private
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Cambridge, Massachusetts - Today, most web browsers have private-browsing modes, in which they temporarily desist from recording the user’s browsing history.
Attorney General Becerra Files Brief in Support of Legal Challenge to Arkansas’ Restrictive Abortion Laws
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Sacramento, California - California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, alongside 15 Attorneys General, Thursday filed an amicus brief in the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of the plaintiff in Hopkins v. Jegley, a lawsuit that seeks to protect a woman’s right to safe and legal abortion care.
NIH pilot project will match researchers to genes, gene variants of interest
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Washington, DC - Databases such as the 1000 Genomes Project and the Exome Aggregation (link is external) Consortium (ExAC) harbor large numbers of genotypes (an individual’s collection of genes). Until now, it has been difficult for researchers to re-contact individuals with genotypes of interest and investigate the health consequences of their genes and gene variants. To address this challenge, National Institutes of Health and Inova Health System (link is external) researchers are launching The Genomic Ascertainment Cohort (TGAC), a two-year pilot project that will allow them to recall genotyped people and examine the genes and gene variants’ influence on their phenotypes, an individual’s observable traits, such as height, eye color or blood type.
Former Captain Pleads Guilty to Aiding and Abetting Assault on a Detainee
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New Orleans, Louisiana - The Justice Department yesterday announced that Mark Frederick, a former Captain of the Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Office (IPSO), pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting an assault on a pre-trial detainee at the Iberia Parish Jail.
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