The OpenHelix Blog

I’m very interested in public policy and genetics. There are a number of threads that I was following along those lines. On the actual legislation I was watching the GINA efforts, and participating where I could. I was reading an article on the downstream effects of that today (Two Cheers for GINA, by McGuire and [...]

I was pretty intrigued by this brief notice I saw on GenomeWeb: GPPC to Hold Touring Town Halls on Large-Scale Cohort Studies The National Human Genome Research Institute wants to know how to get thousands of Americans from a wide swath of social, regional, economical, and ethnic groups to participate in a series of public [...]