PolITiGenomics

NCI on PCGP

Thursday, January 28th, 2010 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) posted a couple stories that discuss, directly and indirectly, the Pediatric Cancer Genome Project. The first, St. Jude, Washington University Launch Genome Project for Childhood ... Read more..

Pediatric Cancer Genome Project

Monday, January 25th, 2010 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

Today, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis announced a joint Pediatric Cancer Genome Project. This project aims to sequence tumor and normal ... Read more..

Health care expansion expands more than just coverage

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 Posted in politics | 1 Comment »

Fareed Zakaria is one of those rare news analysts that has a deep understanding of issues and is able to distill complex topics into their most salient points. Early this ... Read more..

Change Congress

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 Posted in politics | No Comments »

Below is an email from Lawrence Lessig of Change Congress. The Senate passed its health care bill last week, and as you may have noticed, the final version looks quite different ... Read more..

ELSI wrap up

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 Posted in genomics, politics | No Comments »

Dan Vorhaus over at Genomics Law Report just posted a PDF of all essays in the What ELSI is New? series. This series has a lot of good essays about ... Read more..

Corn genome sequenced published

Friday, November 20th, 2009 Posted in genomics | 1 Comment »

Chalk another one up for the corn lobby (damn those Iowa caucuses!), the maize genome has been published. More seriously, this maize genome reference sequence, much like the human genome ... Read more..

For the people?

Friday, November 13th, 2009 Posted in politics | 1 Comment »

Why are Sens. Lieberman and Bayh threatening to filibuster health care bills if they contain a "public option"? Well, both Senators and their wives receive large sums of money from ... Read more..

State of cancer genome sequencing

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

The Genome Center's Elaine Mardis and Rick Wilson have just published a review article on cancer genome sequencing. The article focuses on the application of next-generation sequencing technologies to the ... Read more..

Virus Invasion

Friday, October 23rd, 2009 Posted in genomics | 2 Comments »

Not entirely relevant, but I thought this animation of a how a virus invades your cells and multiplies is entertaining, if not all that informative. Read more..

What ELSI is New?

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 Posted in genomics, politics | No Comments »

My contribution to the Genomics Law Report's What ELSI is New? series appears today, Personalized medicine, leave U.S. behind. The piece discusses the challenges our current health care system presents ... Read more..