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 [...]
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… RT @BGI_Events: Important question, & great primer RT @deannachurch: From @kbradnam:. ‘When is a genome finished?’ [...]
He is. But it’s not his fault. A lot of people have this wrong. There’s an article in the Australian press that is getting some buzz. Nobel Laureate Barry Marshall (of ulcer-causing bacteria identification fame) is talking about the personal genomics wave that’s coming our way. It’s been picked up and re-tweeted quite a bit, [...]
Please indulge a long post from a personal perspective, what genomics is about to do for _me_. This is information that many, if not all, of our readers already know. I’ve been researching and working in either experimental biology or genomics for over 20 years. Ever since the beginning of the Human Genome Project , [...]
So last week I treated myself to my first vacation in a long time. It was my birthday, and I wanted to disconnect a bit and recharge. Mostly it worked, although the hundreds of emails I’m facing this morning are a bit daunting. But just before I left I got an email from a colleague [...]
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 [...]
This week’s Genetic Alliance Weekly Bulletin led me to a paper that investigated public opinions on genetic research that I wanted to examine. The GA link brought me to this press release about the paper: Survey finds wide public support for nationwide study of genes, environment, and lifestyle Four in five Americans support the idea [...]
In the current deadlocked state of affairs in Congress, I am still shocked that the GINA legislation was able to make it through. And although some people didn’t understand why we needed it, it only becomes more clear that the information from even beneficial research could be misused. The legislation still doesn’t take effect for [...]
This was just NOT a headline I was expecting to see as I read my latest GenomeWeb email: “Forensic Breakthrough Stirs NIH to Close GWAS Data from Public View“ I mean, so much of what I have been reading and seeing in resources lately is a push to make GWAS data available and possible to [...]
The successful passage of the GINA legislation (Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act) was long in coming, and the celebrations are still going on. The Genetic Alliance newsletter just offered a link to a video from the celebration, which includes Francis Collins for the soundtrack and celebrants showing us how to dance to G-I-N-A. I don’t see [...]
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