PolITiGenomics

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..

Collins vs. Colbert

Monday, October 5th, 2009 Posted in genomics, politics | No Comments »

Francis Collins, Director of NIH, was on The Colbert Report last Thursday. Colbert did not give him much time to speak, but he did get to take his glasses off ... Read more..

OSCON in ten minutes

Thursday, August 13th, 2009 Posted in genomics, IT | 1 Comment »

Gregg Pollack over at Envy Labs went around OSCON with a hand held video camera asking speakers to summarize their talks in 30 seconds. He has started posting the results ... Read more..

AML in the news

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

For those interested, here is a collection of stories in the press about the recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine on the sequencing of the second whole ... Read more..

Francis at the helm

Friday, August 7th, 2009 Posted in genomics, politics | No Comments »

Francis Collins was confirmed as the head of NIH today. Since the announcement of his nomination, there has been considerable hand wringing from scientists concerning everything from his religion to ... Read more..

Watson on Cancer Research

Thursday, August 6th, 2009 Posted in genomics, politics | No Comments »

In his usual, no-holds-barred, rambling way, Nobel Laureate James Watson takes cancer research in general and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in particular to task for the failure in the ... Read more..

Second whole cancer genome published

Thursday, August 6th, 2009 Posted in genomics | 1 Comment »

Today in the New England Journal of Medicine the second paper detailing the whole genome sequencing of a tumor and its matched normal was published: Recurring Mutations Found by Sequencing ... Read more..

HMP Short Attention Span Theater

Thursday, July 16th, 2009 Posted in genomics | 1 Comment »

For those of you who don't like reading, The Genome Center's George Weinstock, Ph.D., explains the Human Microbiome Project and a few of the HMP demonstration project grants in under ... Read more..