Best of the blogosphere on disease genetics
The thirteenth edition of Gene Genie, a biweekly collection of the blogosphere’s best posts on disease genetics, is up at the Genetic Geneologist, courtesy of proprietor Blaine Bettinger.
The roundup includes posts on:
- the Personal Genome Project, George Church’s effort to sequence the genomes of ten volunteers;
- the neurophysiological importance of ApoE4, a protein related to Alzheimer’s disease;
- the potential involvement of viral infection in the development of multiple sclerosis;
- a list of seven ways to stay up-to-date on developments in genetics;
- and the genetics of left-handedness.
As an added bonus, it also features two HIV-related posts by yours truly. Check it out.
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About the Author, David P. Hamilton
David Hamilton has been writing for VentureBeat LifeScience since April 2007. He formerly spent 14 years as a reporter for the Wall Street Journal in its San Francisco and Tokyo bureaus. Prior to that, he spent several years as a reporter at Science Magazine and as a reporter/researcher for the New Republic, both in Washington.