Saturday - March 28, 2026

Public Policy Tipoffs Involving Massachusetts

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Broad Institute: A Clinical Genomicist Harnesses Team-Based Science to Help Rare-Disease Patients
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Jan. 9 (TNSres) -- The Broad Institute issued the following news: * * * Heidi Rehm convinced labs and scientists to work together and share data. This has helped many people with rare disease find answers. * * * By Allessandra DiCorato In the two decades that Heidi Rehm has been a clinical genomicist, she's accumulated a lot of stories. There's a patient whose shortness of breath and thickened heart wall suggested a cardiac condition but genetic testing revealed a   more
Clean Energy Champion Nancy Skinner California Energy Commission Appointment Worth Celebrating
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Jan. 8 [Category: Environment] -- The Union of Concerned Scientists issued the following news release: Berkeley, Calif. (Jan 8, 2025)--The announcement of former State Senator Nancy Skinner to the California Energy Commission (CEC) was made public by Governor Newsom yesterday. Among her many accomplishments as senator, she authored SB 59, a landmark law that will unlock the potential for electric vehicles (EVs) to export the energy stored in their batteries to power ho  more