Blogging hiatus
Category: blog admin
Blogging on Genetic Future will be pretty much non-existent for the next three weeks....
Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 6:00 PM • 2 Comments •
Genetic Future
Commentary on human genetics and evolution, direct-to-consumer genetic testing, and the personal genomics industry.
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Daniel MacArthur
I write about the genetic and evolutionary basis of human variation, and the companies trying to sell you information about your genome.
Daniel also blogs about personal genomics at Genomes Unzipped.
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- Genetic Future is moving
- One more step towards the end of recessive diseases
- New FireFox plugin for 23andMe customers
- Why you CAN have your $1000 genome - so long as you learn what to do with it
- Bioscience Resource Project critique of modern genomics: a missed opportunity
- Genomes Unzipped reader survey
- News from 23andMe: a bigger chip, a new subscription model and another discount drive
- Why I'm releasing my genetic data online
- Oddities of the odds ratio
- Genetic Future is moving to Wired
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- Razib Khan
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January 22, 2010
Personal genomics is getting serious: Counsyl emerging from stealth mode
Category: attitudes towards genetic testing
Personal genomics company Counsyl has begun to emerge from stealth mode, offering large-scale screening for serious disease mutations in prospective parents. Unlike most current personal genomics products targeting common, complex diseases, Counsyl's offering has
Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 5:00 PM • •
January 15, 2010
Weekly Twitter summary
Category: twitter
A roundup of genomics-related material and links on Twitter this week.
Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 12:15 PM • •
Will new sequencing technology kill arrays
Category: finance
Keith Robison has a perceptive piece riffing off the recent Illumina instrument launch, and ponders whether 2010 will be the year that array-based genomic technologies finally start to die off with the rise of sequencing.The market certainly seems to...
Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 11:35 AM • 1 Comments •
January 12, 2010
Illumina announces new arrival in the sequencing arms race
Category: agbt
Genomics technology giant Illumina has announced a new weapon in the furious DNA sequencing arms race: a platform capable of sequencing two complete human genomes in a single, week-long run. How excited should we be?
Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 8:00 PM • 2 Comments •
January 8, 2010
Weekly Twitter summary
Category: twitter
A round-up of interesting links from the first week of 2010 that didn't make it into a full blog post.
Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 12:15 PM • •
January 7, 2010
Personal genomics links of note
Category: personal genomics
A round-up of recent key articles and blog posts relevant to personal genomics.
Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 5:45 PM • 3 Comments •
Blogger shares his increased type 2 diabetes risk with the world
Category: direct-to-consumer genetic testing
Genetic genealogy blogger Blaine Bettinger writes about his increased genetic risk of type 2 diabetes, revealed by a personal genome scan from direct-to-consumer testing company 23andMe.
Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 10:45 AM • 8 Comments •
January 4, 2010
Will the Archon X Prize for genome sequencing be won in 2010?
Category: next-generation sequencing
The Archon X Prize for Genomics offers a US$10 million windfall to any private company that can sequence 100 genomes in 10 days for a total cost of under US$1 million. Will the Prize be won in 2010?
Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 7:00 AM • 5 Comments •
