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Call for Papers & Thematic Issues—Current Microwave Chemistry

With more than 25,000 “open-access, rapid-publication with fake revewers, predatory journals” that have been created, and continue to explode, since about 2012 — you can imagine the difficulty in trying to come up with a new name (and initials that … Continue reading

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Machine learning and artificial intelligence in physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) modeling

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are two rapidly advancing fields of research, which will clearly play important roles in gene-environment interactions (GxE), as well as almost every venue of scientific study. Hence, GEITP is introducing this topic here. … Continue reading

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Fusion Breakthrough May Be Game-Changer for Energy

This is really a BIG deal. Of course, the hydrogen bomb is an example of fusion energy — but it is not “controlled energy” ☹😉 Fusion Breakthrough May Be Game-Changer for Energy Tuesday, 13 December 2022 11:22 AM EST Department … Continue reading

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HUGO Gene Nomenclatre Committee (HGNC) Autumn NewsLetter

New REST API We are excited to announce that we have expanded our REST API so that you can now query both HGNC and VGNC data! The genenames.org REST web-service is a convenient and quick way of searching and fetching … Continue reading

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mRNA 5’ terminal sequences drive 200-fold differences in expression through effects on synthesis, translation and decay

This publication — which has just appeared today — has little to do with gene-environment interactions, per se. Rather, it answers some very important questions that many of us have pondered, dating back 30-40 years (i.e., does the mRNA itself … Continue reading

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FW: Flu, RSV, Covid

I finally picked up something important from church last Sunday: A VIRUS. ☹ I stood outside (with no earmuffs, or scarf, wind chill about 30 F) talking for 15+ min. Tuesday = I had a little bit of stuffy nose … Continue reading

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A saturated map of common genetic variants associated with human height

Thank you, Magnus, for sharing your recent review. Thank you, Ge, for providing us with your comments on this recently-published study. For those not as “learned” in “missing heritability,” let me add a few thoughts. Genes responsible for phenotypic variation … Continue reading

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Prostaglandin production selectively in brain endothelial cells is both necessary and sufficient for eliciting fever

This topic is a straightforward gene-environment interactions study. First, the environmental signal is a bacterial or viral infection; the response is the release of cytokines by specific types of immune cells (at the site of the infection). These cytokines then … Continue reading

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Geneticist who unmasked lives of ancient humans wins the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

John, I, also, was too young to appreciate McClintock’s sentinel papers (in 1958 and 1960). Barbara retired from her position at Carnegie Institution in 1967, but then she worked as scientist emerita (working in her own lab, with grad students … Continue reading

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What We Know about Long COVID So Far

This syndrome is getting to be just a little bit creepy — especially for those of us who are under 50 (–as well as those over 50 who sometimes feel like we’re still younger than 50). 😉 DwN What We … Continue reading

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