I’ve been very interested in plant genomics projects and it’s been great to see them yield so many interesting papers lately–most recently on the tomato genome and even more on corn analysis. As much as it’s fun to navel-gaze about the human genome for personal genomics, and it is important to get to medical treatments [...]
Welcome to our Friday feature link collection: SNPpets. During the week we come across a lot of links and reads that we think are interesting, but don’t make it to a blog post. Here they are for your enjoyment… Nice video on RNA interference by Nature Reviews Genetics. You can access all of the featured [...]
As Mary pointed out last week, we had an alien DNA upgrade about 1,000 years which lead to the blast furnace, among other necessary modern accoutrements, according to recent research reported in the Weekly World News (still no original paper found in PubMed). Well, apparently current genomics research has shown that those meddlesome aliens are still [...]
Well, I’ve been behind on some of my reading. That arsenic DNA stuff from NASA really got me thinking that my astrobiology was not up to snuff. So I decided to put some deliberate effort into catching up on that. Good thing. I found a report that I had totally missed before. I’m not sure [...]
Why genes are leftwing , by Oliver James is wrong. He posits that because we have found that much of our behavior hasn’t shown a genetic basis, it supports the general ‘left’ view that society and environment are the culprits for much of our individual and societal disfunction. It thus contradicts the ‘right’ view that [...]
Welcome to our Friday feature link dump: SNPpets. During the week we come across a lot of links and reads that we think are interesting, but don’t make it to a blog post. Here they are for your enjoyment… A bit of a dust-up at ScienceBlogs as they added a corporate blog (Pepsi writing about nutrition [...]
Comprehensive tutorial on the publicly available GeneTests resource enable researchers to quickly and effectively use this invaluable resource. Seattle, WA (PRWEB) May 25, 2010 – OpenHelix today announced the availability of an updated tutorial suite on GeneTests. GeneTests is an integrated resource designed to provide access to current genetic testing and other clinical genetics information. The [...]
There are some great sites out there to learn the basics. Most of our readers might not need to learn those themselves, but they might need to teach them or at least give out resources to people who need (or should learn) them. The University of Utah has a great site: Learn.Genetics (TM). And the “Cell [...]
Just a few links for your reading pleasure from the last week. While the mainstream news is reporting on the demise (redefinition) of the ‘gene‘, some high schools kids are doing amazing things with ‘genes.’ Oh, and if, like us, you can’t wait till the annual NAR database is published officially, you can always check [...]
From the MGI mailing list this week came this announcement. You can help Galveston Island recover from Hurricane Ike AND learn great stuff! Students/Postdocs should see the scholarship pieces especially: The Gordon Conference on Quantitative Genetics and Genomics will be held at the Hotel Galvez from February 22-26. 2009. Although Hurricane Ike wreaked havoc on [...]
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