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Pocket Science – geneticist hunts down the cause of his own genetic disorder, and male moths freeze females by mimicking bats
Posted by Ed Yong on March 11, 2010 Not Exactly Pocket Science is a set of shorter write-ups on new stories with links to more detailed takes by the world’s best journalists and bloggers. It is meant to complement the usual fare of detailed pieces that are typical for this blog. Geneticist sequences own genome, finds genetic cause of his disease If you’ve…
Genome sequencing reverses a faulty diagnosis for a genetic disorder
Posted by Ed Yong on October 20, 2009 This is the story of a Turkish boy, who became the first person to have a genetic disorder diagnosed by thoroughly sequencing his genome. He is known only through his medical case notes as GIT 264-1 but for the purposes of this tale, I’m going to call Baby T. At a mere five months of…
How the common cold evolves – full genomes of all known human rhinoviruses
Posted by Ed Yong on February 12, 2009 This is the eighth of eight posts on evolutionary research to celebrate Darwin’s bicentennial. In Virginia, USA, sits a facility called the American Type Culture Collection. Within its four walls lie hundreds of freezers containing a variety of frozen biological samples and among these, are 99 strains of the common cold. These 99 samples represent…