The reason I wrote this post is a video I saw from Panasonic on Gizmondo, my new favourite website. However I’m going to leave the Panasonic bit to the end of this piece.Ion Torrent set AGBT on fire in 2010 with the release of the […]
I read the coverage of a CNN piece on GenomeWeb with interest; the article talks about how much costs are dropping, but alternative views were only recently aired on GenomeWeb by Neil Hall and Mick Watson, so who’s right?Back in May a commentary article by […]
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 […]
Ben Raphael’s lab at Brown University have just published THetA for tumour heterogeneity analysis; it’s a great paper so download it and have a look yourselves.Solid tumours have been shown to be highly heterogeneous and that this can underlie drug resistance and eventual relapse in patients. […]
So the drama is finally over and now we can expect great things from the company developing the worlds best nanopore sequencer, Illumina’s Jat Flatley confirms they have one in development!And at the same time MinIon is about to make it’s comeback in the latest […]
Epigenetics is one of the most exciting areas of research and promises to impact all sorts of biological systems. DNA methylation has recently been shown to come in methylcytosine (mC) and 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) flavours. Usually analysis of mC is carried out using bisulfite conversion or […]
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 […]
At the Illumina Scientific Summit in Berlin last month Prof. Philip Rosenstiel from the Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel spoke about his work on inflammatory bowel disorder (IBD). He presented a fabulous series of experiments where mouse-models of the disease were used to show the impact of […]
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 […]
