Jul
03
2008
Last month I had the opportunity to go to the Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution conference in the striking city of Barcelona. This is the premiere conference for geneticists studying evolution in everything from bacteria to fruit flies, weeds, worms and our favorite model organism, humans! This is a highly interactive conference: almost everyone [...]
Tags: 454, FOXP2, human origins, neanderthal, out of africa, paabo
Jul
01
2008
Last month I had the opportunity to go to the Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution conference in the striking city of Barcelona. This is the premiere conference for geneticists studying evolution in everything from bacteria to fruit flies, weeds, worms and our favorite model organism, humans! This is a highly interactive conference: almost everyone [...]
Tags: Duffy, evolution, FOXP2, genetics, HapMap, HGDP, Imprinting, Lactose Intolerance, LCT, Malaria, SMBE
Jun
27
2008
This month I had the opportunity to go to the Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution conference in the striking city of Barcelona. This is the premiere conference for geneticists studying evolution in everything from bacteria to fruit flies, weeds, worms and our favorite model organism, humans! This is a highly interactive conference: almost everyone [...]
Tags: ancestry, evolution, Jimmy Buffet, maternal ancestry, mtDNA, Stone Age
May
16
2008
Last week 23andMe founders Linda Avey and Anne Wojcicki were interviewed at the second annual New Yorker Conference by Michael Specter, a staff writer for the magazine. The theme of the conference was “Stories from the Near Future,” and boy, do we have some of those.
You can watch the video here.
Tags: 23andMe, interview, New Yorker, New Yorker Conference
Apr
29
2008
Muhammad Yunus at his alma mater in Chittagong, Bangladesh
23andMe presented yesterday at the 11th Milken Institute Global Conference, taking place through Wednesday in Los Angeles. The conference has a significant health care focus, with session topics ranging from “Is the Pharmaceutical Well Drying out?” to “What kind of Reform Makes Sense?”
There were also a [...]
Tags: 23andMe, microfinance, Milken Institute, Muhammad Yunus, Type II diabetes
Feb
11
2008
There were fireworks on the beach at Marco Island, Fla., Thursday night, where 575 genome experts had gathered to discuss serious progress in genomics at the annual Advances in Genome Biology and Technology conference.
I last saw fireworks at a genomics conference in 2000. Back then, euphoria around the first human reference sequence reached a frenzy [...]
Tags: 23andMe, AGBT, genome, genome sequencing