From Kaisernetwork.org, this web seminar on Wednesday 8/20 1ET (tomorrow): View a live webcast of the Kaiser Family Foundation’s series, Today’s Topics In Health Disparities, which will discuss the potential of race-based medical solutions for improving healthcare and reducing racial/ethnic health disparities. The webcast will take a closer look at efforts to study the interaction [...]
Comprehensive tutorials on the disease gene databases GeneTests and Genetic Home Reference enable researchers to quickly and effectively use these invaluable resources. OpenHelix today announced the availability of new tutorial suites on two genetic disease resources: GeneTests and Genetic Home Reference. GeneTests is an integrated resource designed to provide access to current genetic testing and [...]
The Allen Institute for Brain Sceince is a great institution that was founded just under 5 years ago with a 100 million seed money from billionaire Paul Allen (of Microsoft fame). The purpose is, … dedicated to performing innovative basic research on the brain and distributing its discoveries to researchers around the world. Through its [...]
The bloggers here at OpenHelix and some of our family and friends decided to do the taste tests. You know the ones. You probably did them in your genetics class. I used them in my introductory biology class at CCSF years ago and had hundreds of the test strips left. So, we thought we’d distribute [...]
Well, not all mice–not like the project that studied the history of cats (I can haz domesticashun?). This project examined the ancestry of the laboratory inbred mouse. This poster (small section on the left) is one of those cool nearly-secret things you come across once in a while that just make you go: whew–I’m glad [...]
Some people come to this blog looking for help and information about specific genetic conditions. Although that is something we may touch on from time-to-time as new data or databases may arise, it isn’t something we will focus on. But I wanted to provide a link to an organization that does really great work with [...]
One of my favorite mailing lists is the mouse researcher discussion list at The Jackson Lab. I think is the list to which I have been subscribed the longest in my career. It is moderated (never spammed), it has a great community of mouse researchers, and they discuss a range of things–benchwork to bioinformatics. There [...]
Organism Lives 10 Times as Long After Genetic Tinkering Longo and his team previously found two genes — RAS2 and SCH9 — related to growth and development of cancer that are similar in humans and yeast. They are so alike, in fact, that Longo said, “you can put the human gene in yeast and it [...]
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