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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..

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..

I am an influential blogger

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 Posted in genomics, politics | No Comments »

John Travis contacted me to let me know about a recent article of his at ScienceInsider about the UK's plans to use DNA and isotope analysis to determine the nationality ... Read more..

Double standard

Friday, June 5th, 2009 Posted in genomics | 10 Comments »

Since the Biology of Genomes meeting in early May, a tempest has been brewing. It is only in this last week that this tempest has gathered enough strength that it ... Read more..

Personal genomics will shape the next decade

Saturday, January 10th, 2009 Posted in genomics | 1 Comment »

According to Forbes, personal genomics will be one of the five technologies that will shape the next decade. They predict (not too boldly) that personal genome sequencing will become widely ... Read more..

First whole cancer genome sequenced

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 Posted in genomics | 4 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..

Politics and the English Language

Monday, November 3rd, 2008 Posted in politics | No Comments »

This past weekend, Newsweek posted a good story about one of my favorite authors, George Orwell. The story, entitled Why We Need to Call a Pig a Pig (With Or ... 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..

CSI: Phoenix

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

Researchers at TGen have developed a technique to identify trace amounts of an individual's DNA in a mixture of, for example, blood. While this is good news for forensic investigators, ... Read more..

GINA becomes law

Monday, May 26th, 2008 Posted in genomics, politics | No Comments »

For those of you following my recent posts posts on GINA and its ramifications, you might be interested to know that President Bush signed GINA into law last week. ... Read more..