by Emily Burke, PhD | Mar 1, 2018 | Genomics
Hey—Check Out Those Genes! There’s an old saying, “If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you can’t know where you’re going.” We used to rely on paper birth certificates, marriage licenses and memory to help discover where we’ve come from; but paper gets damaged,...
by Emily Burke, PhD | May 4, 2017 | Genomics
The Skinny On DNA Testing 23andMe (Mountain View, CA) recently found itself back in the limelight after the disease risk section of its mail-in DNA kit received an OK from the FDA. The Silicon Valley biotech had to halt sales of its direct-to-consumer genetics testing...
by Emily Burke, PhD | Oct 8, 2015 | Genomics, Uncategorized
DNA: Coding Vs. NON-Coding The completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003 revealed a big surprise: up to 98% of the DNA making up the human genome does not code for proteins! The notion that parts of the genome were non-coding had been circulating for several...
by Emily Burke, PhD | Jul 13, 2015 | Genomics, Uncategorized
Breaking Down The Genome A billion dollar budget, a decade of work, and multinational collaboration brought the first human genome sequence—via the Human Genome Project—to the world at the turn of the century. Today, using so-called “next-generation sequencing (NGS),”...
by Emily Burke, PhD | Aug 21, 2014 | Genomics
PERSONAL GENOMICS TURNS HEADS IN BIOTECH 23andMe, the Silicon Valley based personal genomics company named for the 23 pairs of chromosomes in a normal human cell, is turning a few heads in the biotechnology industry lately. After a very public and still unresolved...
