Archive for the ‘2press’ Category

People in the News: Robert Green, Shashikant Kulkarni, Rong Chen, Mark Gerstein, and more | BioInform | Informatics | GenomeWeb

Saturday, February 1st, 2014

http://www.genomeweb.com/informatics/people-news-robert-green-shashikant-kulkarni-rong-chen-mark-gerstein-and-more

GenomeWeb young investigator feature

Thursday, January 2nd, 2014

Young Investigator for Ekta Khurana

http://www.genomeweb.com/genomeweb-feature-eighth-annual-young-investigators

BioTechniques – The Myth of the Single Genome

Monday, October 21st, 2013

BioTechniques – The Myth of the Single Genome
http://www.biotechniques.com/news/The-Myth-of-the-Single-Genome/biotechniques-347272.html

The Myth of the Single #Genome: fetal Y chr left in women + smaller microchimerism in specific tissues
http://www.biotechniques.com/news/The-Myth-of-the-Single-Genome/biotechniques-347272.html MT @xberthet

Navigating Collaborative Grant Research | Science Careers

Saturday, October 12th, 2013

A post in Science Careers discussed type of collaborative environment in the lab.

http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2013_09_13/science.opms.r1300136

Reuters Next — For Henrietta Lacks’ famous cells, new and unique protection

Friday, August 9th, 2013

http://preview.reuters.com/2013/8/7/for-henrietta-lacks-famous-cells-new-and-unique-1

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/07/us-science-hela-idUSBRE9760YD20130807

QT:"

The decision applies only to researchers funded by NIH, which said it
"encourages" other scientists to abide by the agreement. Because
DNA-sequencing technology is cheap and ubiquitous in genetics labs,
the HeLa genome has been partly sequenced many times, and can easily
be fully sequenced again.

"Sequencing" refers to determining the precise order of the chemical
letters on a person’s genome, which is the full library of his or her
genetic information. Bits and pieces of that sequence spell out, for
instance, whether someone is at risk of diabetes or Alzheimer’s or
other genetic traits, as well as personal traits like the consistency
of ear wax.

These loopholes in the access agreement significantly weaken the NIH
move, said Mark Gerstein, a computational biologist at Yale University
who has raised concerns about threats to genetic privacy. "I doubt NIH
will get blanket agreement from scientists in every country" to follow
its protocol, "so it’s not clear what the agreement will be able to
accomplish."

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Reuters Next — For Henrietta Lacks’ famous cells, new and unique protection

Friday, August 9th, 2013

http://preview.reuters.com/2013/8/7/for-henrietta-lacks-famous-cells-new-and-unique-1

QT:”

The decision applies only to researchers funded by NIH, which said it “encourages” other scientists to abide by the agreement. Because DNA-sequencing technology is cheap and ubiquitous in genetics labs, the HeLa genome has been partly sequenced many times, and can easily be fully sequenced again.

“Sequencing” refers to determining the precise order of the chemical letters on a person’s genome, which is the full library of his or her genetic information. Bits and pieces of that sequence spell out, for instance, whether someone is at risk of diabetes or Alzheimer’s or other genetic traits, as well as personal traits like the consistency of ear wax.

These loopholes in the access agreement significantly weaken the NIH move, said Mark Gerstein, a computational biologist at Yale University who has raised concerns about threats to genetic privacy. “I doubt NIH will get blanket agreement from scientists in every country” to follow its protocol, “so it’s not clear what the agreement will be able to accomplish.”

Faulty genetics not at fault | Yale Daily News

Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2012/feb/28/faulty-genetics-not-at-fault

HMS Postdoctoral Fellow Dies at 30 | News | The Harvard Crimson

Monday, January 30th, 2012

Tara Gianoulis writeup
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/10/4/gianoulis-remembered

Students papers hit the presses | Yale Daily News

Monday, January 30th, 2012

Mentions Joanna Lim ’05 who did research in computer security in the summer between her sophomore and junior year and published her results in the June 2004 issue of Nature Biotechnology http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2005/mar/23/students-papers-hit-the-presses