PolITiGenomics

Junk DNA no more

Thursday, November 13th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

The New York Times has a good article, Now - The Rest of the Genome, on the latest research on genes and the non-protein-encoding parts of the genome. As reported ... Read more..

AML on NPR

Friday, November 7th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

Dr. Tim Ley of The Genome Center is going to be a guest on NPR's Talks of the Nation Science Friday today. He will be talking about the AML ... Read more..

AML genome news

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

Here is some of the coverage in the press of the AML cancer genome sequencing paper: Science News, The New York Times, WUSM MedNews, Washington Post, Reuters, MIT Technology Review. ... Read more..

First whole cancer genome sequenced

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 Posted in genomics | 2 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..

TSP news

Friday, October 24th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

As discussed in a previous post, the Tumor Sequencing Project has just published its initial findings from sequencing 623 genes in 188 patients with lung adenocarcinoma in Nature, Somatic mutations ... Read more..

The central dogma of cancer genomics

Friday, October 24th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

Today, Chris Sander, head of the Computational Biology Center at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), gave a talk at The Genome Center. His group at MSKCC performs a wide ... Read more..

First whole Asian genome sequenced

Friday, October 24th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

The Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI) recently announced the completion of the first whole genome sequence of a Han Chinese individual. The genome, which they named YH, was generated from DNA ... 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..

Francis Collins endorses Obama

Monday, October 13th, 2008 Posted in genomics, politics | 2 Comments »

Francis Collins, former director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, has written an op-ed in The Virginian-Pilot endorsing Sen. Obama for President of the United States. Apparently The Virginian-Pilot ... Read more..

TCGA project finds link between methylation and patient outcome

Friday, September 26th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

Researcher from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center recently presented some of their findings from The Cancer Genome Atlas at the American Association for Cancer Research Molecular ... Read more..