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People in the News: Robert Green, Shashikant Kulkarni, Rong Chen, Mark Gerstein, and more | BioInform | Informatics | GenomeWeb
February 1, 2014GenomeWeb young investigator feature
January 2, 2014Young Investigator for Ekta Khurana
http://www.genomeweb.com/genomeweb-feature-eighth-annual-young-investigators
BioTechniques – The Myth of the Single Genome
October 21, 2013BioTechniques – 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
October 12, 2013A post in Science Careers discussed type of collaborative environment in the lab.
Reuters Next — For Henrietta Lacks’ famous cells, new and unique protection
August 9, 2013http://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
August 9, 2013http://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.”
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Faulty genetics not at fault | Yale Daily News
February 29, 2012HMS Postdoctoral Fellow Dies at 30 | News | The Harvard Crimson
January 30, 2012Tara Gianoulis writeup
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/10/4/gianoulis-remembered
Students papers hit the presses | Yale Daily News
January 30, 2012Mentions 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
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