PolITiGenomics

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..

Sequencing primer

Monday, September 28th, 2009 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

Ars Technica has the first in a (promised to be) series on DNA sequencing. This article just gets you through Sanger sequencing on a capillary electrophoresis instrument. Next-generation sequencing will ... Read more..

Easy racism

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009 Posted in genomics, politics | 2 Comments »

Well President Obama and I now have something in common: we have both been accused of being racist against white people. President Obama by Glenn "'President Obama has a deep-seated hatred ... 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..

Another rich white guy sequences own genome

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 Posted in genomics | 4 Comments »

Following in the dubious footsteps of J. Craig Venter, Stephen Quake has sequenced his own genome using a technology he helped develop which was commercialized by a company he helped ... 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..