PolITiGenomics

Archive for August, 2009

Helping those in crisis

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 Posted in charity | No Comments »

In a lead up to the St. Louis Crisis Nursery's Celebrity Waitress and Waiters Night, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch has a nice story about how the nursery helps those who, ... Read more..

OSCON in ten minutes

Thursday, August 13th, 2009 Posted in genomics, IT | 1 Comment »

Gregg Pollack over at Envy Labs went around OSCON with a hand held video camera asking speakers to summarize their talks in 30 seconds. He has started posting the results ... 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..

United Way online auction

Monday, August 10th, 2009 Posted in charity | No Comments »

The United Way of Greater St. Louis is having an online auction to benefit many non-profits around St. Louis, including the St. Louis Crisis Nursery. A lot of the items ... Read more..

Sour grapes

Monday, August 10th, 2009 Posted in genomics, politics | 7 Comments »

Well, the US is not the only place with interesting politics. I recently came across this letter from Kevin McKernan, Senior Director of Scientific Operations at Applied Biosystems/Life Technologies, to ... Read more..

Francis at the helm

Friday, August 7th, 2009 Posted in genomics, politics | No Comments »

Francis Collins was confirmed as the head of NIH today. Since the announcement of his nomination, there has been considerable hand wringing from scientists concerning everything from his religion to ... 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..