We’ve waited since Christmas to find out more and on the NHS’ 65th birthday we finally get to hear more about how the NHS is going to roll out clinical sequencing for patients in England. In December last year Prime Minister David Cameron announced the […]
There have been some interesting articles on GM recently and I couldn’t help but see the opportunity for a genetics-sounding recipe idea; hence the Gen-enchilada! This brings together two of my favourite things; food and genomics (sort of) so here’s a recipe first and some […]
Consumer genomics is becoming easier and easier to access and a colleague recently contacted me about my experiences as some friends were planning to get tested. When I got “23andMe’d” I learnt some new stuff about me and my DNA, and I’d like to learn […]
I read an interesting post over at boingboing.net on the use of DNA barcodes and the possible appearance of Dr Spocks Tricorder.Maggie Koerth-Baker links the Tricorder of 1960’s TV to labs like that of Carlos Garcia-Robledo, a postdoc at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural […]
Science Watch have published their list of “Hot” scientists. Their website front page has 21 researchers on the hot-list from the “Genomics and Biomedicine” section and 8 of the 21 hottest scientific researchers are involved in Genomics. However only two of these are female.The report […]
I came across this blog recently and thought you’d like to read it too. Try this at home is a blog written by Mark Lorch, a chemistry lecturer at the University of Hull. He has some great stuff to try at home with the kids, […]
I have recently added several more blogs to the list on the side of this page, these are blogs I enjoy and I hope you find the posts on them as interesting as I do. Choosing to follow a blog always seems a bit of […]
1st RULE: Everyone votes at cake club. 2nd RULE: EVERYONE votes at cake club. 3rd RULE: If someone says “burnt” the cake is over. 4th RULE: Only one person can bake. 5th RULE: Only one cake at a time. 6th RULE: No shop bought, no […]
Update 25th April: Illumina have released a support bulletin “Best Practices for High Sensitivity Applications: Minimizing Sample Carryover”, this is accessible through Illumina’s website, or SEQanswers. You’ll need an Illumina login!Illumina say that sample carryover is more likely to have an effect on very low […]
We have some old lab equipment we are getting rid of much of it will be recycled into other University departments. Some will be sold to equipment resellers like Biagen, Alliance Analytical, and Harlow Scientific. Some of it may even end up in the skip. […]
