4 10, 2013

It’s not Open Acess’s fault!

By | October 4th, 2013|Categories: Uncategorized|0 Comments

Update: …see the bottom of the post for more coverage on this “sting”GenomeWeb has coverage of a story all of us should take a look at. A fake manuscript produced by a journalist from Science was accepted by 157 open-access publishers, a damning indictment of […]

23 09, 2013

Circulating RNA analysis

By | September 23rd, 2013|Categories: Uncategorized|0 Comments

Analysis of circulating DNA has had a major impact in the last couple of years with 100s of publications in the last few years. I’ve previously posted about work at the Institute on circulating tumour DNA analysis of amplicons and exomes, but what about RNA?RNAs […]

27 08, 2013

Back from my holidays

By | August 27th, 2013|Categories: Uncategorized|0 Comments

Two weeks away from the lab, from papers, from email and from Core Genomics – I’ve just got back from Finland’s wilderness: wood-fired sauna, lakes to swim in, fish to catch and no-one for miles; and all with fantastic 4G connection! Holidays are great and […]

5 07, 2013

Genome England: 100,000 genomes here we come!

By | July 5th, 2013|Categories: Uncategorized|2 Comments

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 […]

27 06, 2013

Gen-enchiladas anyone?

By | June 27th, 2013|Categories: Uncategorized|0 Comments

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 […]

14 06, 2013

23and Meow

By | June 14th, 2013|Categories: Uncategorized|1 Comment

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 […]

12 06, 2013

DNA barcoding for cnidarians with Oxford Nanopore

By | June 12th, 2013|Categories: Uncategorized|1 Comment

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 […]

7 06, 2013

Where are all the “hot” female scientists

By | June 7th, 2013|Categories: Uncategorized|0 Comments

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 […]

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