Cracking the code of when #genetic variants matter, by @CarlZimmer https://www.StatNews.com/2016/08/17/genetic-variants-ex-ac-sequence/ Underscores need for realistic guidelines on risk
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The Man Who Kicked Off the Biotech Revolution – Issue 44: Luck – Nautilus
January 30, 2017The Man Who Kicked Off…#Biotech by @CarlZimmer
http://nautil.us/issue/44/luck/the-man-who-kicked-off-the-biotech-revolution H Smith for discovering restriction enzymes + a history of the term
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“Trying to make sense of the failure, Wilcox suggested to Smith that the bacteria were destroying the viral DNA. He based his suggestion on a hypothesis proposed a few years earlier by Werner Arber, a microbiologist at the University of Geneva. Arber speculated that enzymes could restrict the growth of viruses by chopping up their DNA, and dubbed these hypothetical molecules “restriction enzymes.”” “}}
Scientists are cracking the code of when genetic variants matter
January 12, 2017Zimmer genome STAT article
July 11, 2016So the first part of the Zimmer article came out this morning. https://www.statnews.com/feature/game-of-genomes/season-one/
Sneak peek: The ‘Game of Genomes’ is coming
July 8, 2016Growing Pains for Field of Epigenetics as Some Call for Overhaul – NYTimes.com
July 4, 2016Growing Pains for Field of #Epigenetics by
@CarlZimmerhttp://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/02/science/epigenetic-marks-dna-genes.html Reflects well on overhype & correlation vs causation issues
Staying Afloat in the Rising Tide of Science: Cell
March 19, 2016Staying Afloat in the Rising Tide of Science by @CarlZimmer
http://www.Cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(16)30192-1 How can this tide lift all boats & not drown us in Tb?
DNA Under the Scope, and a Forensic Tool Under a Cloud – The New York Times
March 10, 2016DNA Under the Scope &…Under a Cloud by @carlzimmer
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/27/science/dna-under-the-scope-and-a-forensic-tool-under-a-cloud.html Highlights the technical challenges of sequencing w/ few copies