http://scienceroll.com/2007/02/28/the-human-variome-project-new-horizons-in-clinical-genetics/ A doctor's journey in genetics PhD and medicine through web 2.0 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:25:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://scienceroll.com/2007/02/28/the-human-variome-project-new-horizons-in-clinical-genetics/#comment-26780 Fri, 02 Nov 2007 06:10:19 +0000 http://scienceroll.com/2007/02/28/the-human-variome-project-new-horizons-in-clinical-genetics/#comment-26780 Very timely and helpful undertaking. I saw this movie on unwanted mutation brought about by nuclear testing in New Mexico – of course, the place is just fictional. And it was really sad because the mutant didn’t only change their physical appearance but also changed their whole being. Most of them didn’t act like humans anymore; rather they act like savages or monsters hungry for human flesh and blood.

]]> http://scienceroll.com/2007/02/28/the-human-variome-project-new-horizons-in-clinical-genetics/#comment-2068 Tue, 06 Mar 2007 14:10:29 +0000 http://scienceroll.com/2007/02/28/the-human-variome-project-new-horizons-in-clinical-genetics/#comment-2068 [...] has been mentioned in the Research category: ScienceRoll informs us of the Human Variome Project, to collect data on mutations causing [...]

]]> http://scienceroll.com/2007/02/28/the-human-variome-project-new-horizons-in-clinical-genetics/#comment-1966 Wed, 28 Feb 2007 21:38:32 +0000 http://scienceroll.com/2007/02/28/the-human-variome-project-new-horizons-in-clinical-genetics/#comment-1966 Always neologisms… and always these “hypedly formed” ones. Strings matching the regexp “.*ome” always sound dubious to me, as well as hype-seeking and trying-to-be-up-to-date, just as these hyphened-many-words-as-one words. Nothing about content being criticized here; it’s only nomenclature. Science is constantly drifting in its nomenclature preferences, some notions being associated to certain groups or ideals. (Like those funny gene names being associated to deep in tech genetics or even worse, bioinforatics researcers, or funny program names associated to the GNU community.) Nothing wrong about that. Just my personal opinion. Just mind my words: using a certain kind of pattern for creating neologisms encourages others to categorize you into some caste or other. You have been warned.

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