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I wish I wrote this - 44 days ago
An excellent excellent opinion piece in Nature by Bruce T. Lahn & Lanny Ebenstein. Since I cannot write as elegantly as they have, I’ll just urge anyone reading this to go and read the whole thing because it contains grains of gold like this. Topics: Genetic diversity, genetics, Uncategorized
How to have your cake, eat it, and then complain - 62 days ago
Image by Getty Images via DaylifeFirst: State that most of our genome is junk.Second: When more and more promoters, enhancers, repressors and other regulatory elements are discovered, claim that this of course was not included in the definition of... Topics: communicating science, junk DNA, Uncategorized
The slippery slope, maybe not so slippery after all - 196 days ago
Image via WikipediaI read this (via AnnaBones):Yesterday, when Gov. John Baldacci (D) signed a marriage equality law, Maine became the fifth state to allow legal same-sex marriage. On the Christian Broadcasting Network today, Pat Robertson responded by... Topics: Uncategorized
Eight things we didn’t communicate that well - 200 days ago
As life scientists, we failed in our communication with the rest of the world when our messages became:1.Survival of the strongest (which was supposed to be survival of the fittest)2. Abortion is ending human life (when what it really means is not... Topics: Uncategorized
Flip a coin Diagnostics ? Worse ? Better ? - 269 days ago
A good easy to do , quick test for colorectal cancer is something diagnostic labs have been wanting (and trying to make) for many years. Now, DNA-direct has introduced a new genetic test. The test is based on methylation of the vimentin gene.As a... Topics: Colorectal cancer, diagnostics, Uncategorized



