PolITiGenomics

First whole cancer genome sequenced

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 Posted in genomics | 4 Comments »

In tomorrow's issue of Nature, three papers detailing the sequencing of entire human genomes are being published. All of the sequencing reported in the papers was generated using the Illumina/Solexa ... Read more..

Politics and the English Language

Monday, November 3rd, 2008 Posted in politics | No Comments »

This past weekend, Newsweek posted a good story about one of my favorite authors, George Orwell. The story, entitled Why We Need to Call a Pig a Pig (With Or ... Read more..

Towards a cure for cancer

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 Posted in genomics | 6 Comments »

Recently, The Genome Center's Dr. Elaine Mardis gave a talk at the Cold Spring Harbor's Personal Genomes meeting. The topic of the talk was the ever increasing efforts of the ... Read more..

CSI: Phoenix

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

Researchers at TGen have developed a technique to identify trace amounts of an individual's DNA in a mixture of, for example, blood. While this is good news for forensic investigators, ... Read more..

GINA becomes law

Monday, May 26th, 2008 Posted in genomics, politics | No Comments »

For those of you following my recent posts posts on GINA and its ramifications, you might be interested to know that President Bush signed GINA into law last week. ... Read more..

Do laws protect rights?

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 Posted in genomics, politics | 1 Comment »

Recently I wrote a post about the Senate passing GINA. There was an interesting comment from the watchdogonscience that echoes his post on the subject. Just as discrimination against race ... Read more..

Senate passes GINA

Friday, April 25th, 2008 Posted in genomics, politics | 3 Comments »

The Senate has passed the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA). You can hear NPR's take in their story Senate OKs Bill Outlawing Genetic Discrimination. It seems Sen. Tom ... Read more..