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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..

Eric Green new head of NHGRI

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

Eric Green, head of NHGRI Intramural Research and the NHGRI Intramural Sequencing Center, has been named as the new National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) Director. A Washington University in ... 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..

Breakin’ 3: Genomic Variations

Friday, October 2nd, 2009 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

In the long awaited follow up to Breakin' and Breakin' 2, Ken Chen has released BreakDancer. As described in his Nature Methods article and a recent Genome Technology article, BreakDancer ... Read more..