Closing time
Posted August 10, 2012 by
A note from PLOS Blogs Community Manager Victoria Costello: We’re sad to see Misha Angrist leave our blog roster but we’ve been honored to host the last two years’ of his Genomeboy posts, which will
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Salty Dogs
Posted July 26, 2012 by
Thanks to a mutual friend (hi Fred!), last night I had the pleasure of hearing, meeting and dining with Sir Gary Brooker, singer and co-writer of “A Whiter Shade of Pale,” and leader of the
Grant writing season
Posted July 25, 2012 by
Safety dance
Posted July 20, 2012 by
A Mayan discovery
Posted July 17, 2012 by
Maya is a four-year old delight. She’s wiggly and giggly and has a partner in crime, her dog Parker. She loves animals, other kids, being naughty, and life as a whole. She has also undergone
I nearly died from hospitality
Posted June 20, 2012 by
In PLoS Medicine Basu et al report on a systematic meta-analytic comparison of private and public health care systems in low- and middle-income countries such as Viet Nam, Namibia, Tanzania, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, India and
Unidentified Flying Subjects
Posted June 18, 2012 by
Last week I was at the National Cancer Institute Think Tank on the Identifiability of Genomic Data and Biospecimens, a gathering of a few dozen people aimed at hashing out how human tissue and genomic
I ain’t got no alibi
Posted June 4, 2012 by
In April I attended the Genomes Environments Traits conference, along with a couple hundred other people, many of whom were and are participants in the Personal Genome Project. This was the first year that GET
You have come so many miles
Posted May 27, 2012 by
Durham–the whole Triangle really–has so many amazing bands…like this one.
The order is rapidly fading
Posted May 25, 2012 by
25 May 2012 Amy Gutmann, PhD Chair, The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues 1425 New York Avenue NW Suite C–100 Washington, DC 20005 Re: Comments on the ethical issues raised by the