Technology Triple Trivia
3 Questions. 3 Hints. 3 Answers. April 5, 2016 What technologies may render ovulation calendars obsolete? Hint: Answer: with whole genome sequencing and stem cell technology, all we may need to make babies in the years to come is the intended mother’s skin sample and father’s sperm sample. The embryo created from the samples will […]
Wednesday Web Watch for December 3, 2014
This past June, a healthy baby boy was born in California. Not so unusual. What was unusual is that this baby’s entire genome was privately sequenced before his birth using a tissue sample, a high-speed DNA sequencing machine and free online software. In an article entitled For One Baby, Life Begins With Genome Revealed, published in […]
An Interesting Week in Genetics
by Gary Marchant So the most recent estimate published this week is that humans only have about 19,000 protein-coding genes, down from previous estimates in the 22,000-25,000 range, and way down from the pre-Human Genome Project conventional wisdom that humans had 100,000-250,000 different genes. The new study is available online (for free). But it […]