What’s on the web? (31 July 2007) July 31, 2007
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in What's on the web?.trackback
- Grand Rounds 3:45 (Health Business Blog): the weekly best of the medical blogosphere
- Newborn Genetic Screening vs Right to Privacy (Eye on DNA): The Citizens Council on Health Care has been fighting the Minnesota state government to have newborn blood samples destroyed after disease screening unless parents give consent for the samples to be used for research.
- Tutorial 3: What are SNPs and why are they considered so important? (Genetics and Health): A fantastic tutorial from Penny about SNPs role in developing and testing diseases.
- Gene Therapy Trial Halted After Death, FDA Investigates (Wired): A gene therapy that may have killed a clinical trial participant last week drew the concern of an expert review panel four years ago.
- Genome-wide association study compilation (OMMBID Blog): NCBI’s dbGaP (The database of Genotype and Phenotype) compiles results of studies that have investigated the interaction of genotype and phenotype.
- What good is a map? (The Gene Sherpa): There will soon be a personal genome option. Everyone will be able to have an economically priced copy.
Thanks for the shout out Berci!
-Steve
how is the genetics going?
It’s hard, but I’m in the middle of a cool project.
And I’m still doing my summer practice…