Nov 13 2008
When I was 12 years old I did my first Punnett square and decided that genetics was absolutely, most definitely the coolest thing ever.
When I was 13 years old they started the Human Genome Project. The task of sequencing all three billion base pairs in a person’s genome was the most enormous project I [...]
Mar 04 2008
This car costs less than a human genome sequence – but not for long.
A story in the weekly science section of today’s New York Times profiles the first customer of Knome, a company started by Harvard University professor (and 23andMe scientific advisory board member) George Church that offers complete genome sequencing for a cool $350,000.
The [...]
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 [...]
