Getting Genetics Done

For a few years now, my EvoSTAR colleague , Bill Langdon , has been exploring the degree to which Mycoplasma bacteria have contaminated expe...

Check out this paper in PNAS and the corresponding synopsis in the New York Times . The authors take a unique approach to finding genes lik...

A District Court handed down a summary judgment invalidating most of Myriad's claims to both the BRCA1 DNA sequence and the method of te...

Just caught this on the OpenHelix Blog . In an interview with Charlie Rose , NIH director Francis Collins said Computational biologists will...

The New York Times had an interesting piece yesterday about how SAS is facing several business threats from companies like the recently IBM...

http://www.harvardscience.harvard.edu/blog/how-dachshund-lost-its-legs 'It’s stunning to see a genetic modification like this,' deve...

While not directly related to genetics, this is an excellent example of well-designed data representation. The New York Times reports the r...

Logan recently emailed me an article in the New York Times about single-molecule DNA sequencing and I realized I knew next to nothing about...

That's the title of a good article published yesterday in the New York Times about the emergence of statistics being in huge demand in ...

Last week personal genomics giant 23andMe launched Research Revolution , a new project aiming to recruit 1000 study participants for each o...

Yesterday President Barack Obama announced his intent to appoint former leader of the Human Genome Project, discoverer of delta-F508, and al...

The New York Times published this interesting article on how the ability to design and perform computer simulations is a highly marketable ...

This week Illumina launched their own personal genome sequencing service . For $48,000 they'll send you the sequence of your entire gen...

Google's chief economist was recently quoted as saying "The sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians… The ability to ta...

Amidst the fallout of an academic discussion over the worth of GWA studies followed by several gloomy and scathing articles in the popul...

Here are four interesting and provocative articles in New England Journal of Medicine: David Goldstein: Common Genetic Variation and Human T...