Nature vs Nurture
Dr. Eric J. Nestler, Director of Friedman Brain Institute at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City discussed with Scientific American how environmental stresses that we encounter everyday play a role in our genetic makeup. Dr.…
TB and Targeted Sequencing
TB or Tuberculosis seems like one of those diseases that should have gone by the wayside years ago with other “old” diseases like polio and diphtheria. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2017, 10 Million…
DNA in My Garden: What is that bug that keeps eating my cantaloupes? Or maybe you are having issues with some aphids that have been attacking grandma’s blue ribbon county fair roses that seem almost post-apocalyptic in their resistance to every method you have tried to wipe them out, including throwing the proverbial kitchen sink at them. Maybe you have discovered something that needs further elucidating, something slightly different that can either change your approach in your gardening arsenal or something as big that a thesis is begging to be researched and written.
So you have a strange insect that has been poking holes in the bottom of all those luscious cantaloupes you have been tending to. You cut that cantaloupe open and something vibrantly colored and slightly vicious looking locks eyes with…
The Dog Genome Project
Fall is here, but the dog days of summer are still hanging around…well in the lab anyways. The power of DNA sequencing is being ‘unleashed’ and continues to bring light to the canine genome. By combining genome sequencing with…