Her heart beat in frightened counterpoint to the rhythm of the mitochondrion. — Madeleine l’Engle, A Wind in the Door (1973) As you’ve likely heard,…
Sailing a close reach, San Francisco Bay. (Image copyright Nathaniel Pearson) A talk at the Clinical Genome Conference resonated with some folks, who suggested sharing…
In Phoenix this week, clinical geneticists have gathered at ACMG to catch up on health-relevant genomic findings and tools, and decide how to best put…
A human genome, remixed, and gone viral. In a nutshell, that’s the conditionally re-published genome of HeLa cells, which flourish in labs worldwide, but trace…
In Phoenix this week, clinical geneticists have gathered at ACMG to catch up on health-relevant genomic findings and tools, and decide how to best put…
Aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Massachusetts (Image copyright Nathaniel Pearson) A journalist asked me last week to comment on reported plans to sequence — and ostensibly…
By Gregory Snyder Since the completion of the Human Genome Project less than a decade ago, the cost of sequencing genomes has decreased more than…
Economy recapitulates demography? (image source) Iranians count their rials in superunits of the toman, from a Mongol word for ten thousand soldiers. Remarkably, such a…
Three new papers spotlight a glut of rare variants in our genomes, with key insights for human history and health.
The plot thickens. The crab […] only runs backwards. – Arsenio Rodríguez, Cangrejo Fue a Estudiar In time, finer data and statistical models will test…