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Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Fourth Quarter 2020 Illumina Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] Please be advised that today s conference is being recorded. [Operator Instructions]
I would now like to introduce your host for today s conference call, Ms. Juliet Cunningham, VP, Illumina, Investor Relations.
Juliet Cunningham
Vice President, Investor Relations
Good afternoon everyone, and welcome to our earnings call for the fourth quarter and full year 2020. During the call today, we will review the financial results released after the close of market, and offer commentary on our commercial activity, after which we ll host a question-and-answer session. If you have not had a chance to review the earnings release, it can be found in the Investor Relations section of our website at illumina.com. Participating for Illumina today will be Francis deSouza, CEO; and Sam Samad, CFO. Francis will provide an update on the state of Illumina s bus
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A new genetic study of Native Hawaiians by Charleston Chiang at the University of Southern California and colleagues finds that people who have a greater proportion of Polynesian ancestry in their genomes face a higher risk of obesity, Type-2 diabetes and heart failure. The study is published February 11 in
PLOS Genetics.
Previous studies have shown that Native Hawaiians appear to have high rates of cancers and chronic health conditions, especially when compared to other people living in Hawaii. In their genes, Native Hawaiians carry a mix of Polynesian, European and Asian ancestry, but due to the group s small size, there
Just how prevalent are COVID variants in New York City?
NYC scaling up detection of COVID variants
Local leaders have their eye on the new strains of COVID-19 that they fear could lead to a repeat of last spring if left unchecked.
NEW YORK - The UK variant, the South African variant, and the Brazilian variant are among the more contagious mutations of the coronavirus floating around, but to what degree, we still don t know. You can either be flying blind or get a little bit of advanced notice and say, Ok here s this variant that s more infectious and it s now here in New York or the U.S., said Neville Sanjana, PhD, a faculty member at the New York Genome Center and NYU.
Covid-19: The World Has Changed. So Has the Playbook for the Olympics.
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San Francisco will sue its own school district to force it to reopen to students. A judge ordered inmates in Oregon prisons to be vaccinated.
Here’s what you need to know:
No cheering, singing or handshakes. And no riding public transportation without special permission.
After nearly two months of relative silence amid new waves of coronavirus infection in Japan and many other countries, organizers of this summer’s Tokyo Olympics on Wednesday released the first of several so-called playbooks that will instruct athletes, officials and members of the news media on the protocols they must follow at this summer’s rescheduled Games.