PolITiGenomics

Transcription and Translation

Friday, June 25th, 2010 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

Here a cool video from DNA: The Secret of Life detailing (in real time, just like the PacBio RS!) the central dogma of molecular biology. Read more..

Breast cancer quartet

Thursday, April 15th, 2010 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

Today in Nature our recent research studying basal-like breast cancer as compared to normal DNA, a subsequent brain metastasis, and a xenograft derived from the primary tumor (a xenograft is ... Read more..

Sing like a bird

Thursday, April 1st, 2010 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

The zebra finch reference genome and several companion papers are being published today in Nature and Genome Research. The zebra finch is a model for human vocal development and it ... Read more..

Profiling aromatase inhibitor response in breast cancer

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

GenomeWeb's In Sequence magazine recently posted a story about The Genome Center's efforts, led by Elaine Mardis, to determine genetic patterns associated with aromatase inhibitor, a common therapy that blocks ... Read more..

In case you missed second grade

Monday, February 15th, 2010 Posted in politics | No Comments »

Speaking of global climate change and snowstorms, NPR has a story this morning about how a lot of snow in Washington, DC does not contradict the theory of global climate ... Read more..

Seeing double

Friday, February 12th, 2010 Posted in politics | No Comments »

It seems there is a shortage of news satire ideas. Two days ago, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report each had similar pieces on global climate change. The Daily Show ... Read more..

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..

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..