PolITiGenomics

Archive for October, 2008

The Technology Policy Smackdown

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 Posted in IT, politics | 1 Comment »

Tomorrow, 30 October 2008, at 12:30 EDT, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, representing Sen. McCain, and former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt, representing Sen. Obama, will participate in a Technology Policy Smackdown hosted by ... 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..

The horse race

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 Posted in politics | No Comments »

Now that we are three weeks away from the election, the polls are actually worth looking at (that is, of course, if you are interested in that sort of thing). ... Read more..

Politics of personality

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 Posted in politics | No Comments »

If lately you have been asking yourself, "Just who is Barack Obama?" or, for that matter, "Who is John McCain?", you have an excellent opportunity to find out. Tonight, Frontline ... 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..

Campaign like it’s 1908

Friday, October 3rd, 2008 Posted in politics | No Comments »

ScienceNews has a piece on the first presidential campaign where sound recordings of the candidates were available for people to purchase and listen to in their homes. The recordings were ... Read more..

Vote!

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 Posted in politics | 2 Comments »

Registration deadlines in all states are coming up fast. So if you are not currently registered, find out where you can register and do it. Oh, and watch the Vice Presidential ... Read more..