Summer is rapidly approaching and I’m so looking forward to a nice long Memorial Day weekend with outdoor cookouts and plenty of time for gardening. Those of us New Englanders that have endured a long, hard winter really appreciate ending our hibernation and spending time outside in the spring and summer. Gardening is one of [...]
After the mad rush of the holiday season, I found a little time to catch up on reading, and stumbled across an astounding article in the NYtimes: New Genetic Test Asks Which Sport a Child was Born to Play, by Juliet Macur. A company called ATLAS (Athletic Talent Laboratory Analysis System) is offering a genetic [...]
Do you still believe that monozygotic, or identical, twins are really genetically identical? Or that we are all 99.9% genetically similar to each other? Well I certainly did, and boy was I wrong! It turns out that CNVs (Copy Number Variations) are causing the “facts” some of us learned in Molecular Biology 101 to be [...]
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