Asking for our “sympathy and support”, Eric Lander attemped to summarize the past and future of the genetic era. Since there are five turns of the double helix, he broke this down into five parts. The first of these was ‘The Secret of Life” which was the start of the 20th century until 1953 according to…
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I feel a strong personal draw to the topic of the Nobel Week Dialog, the genetic revolution. When I first started graduate school back in 1989, the biological research community was still debating whether sequencing the human genome was a worthwhile use of our resources. The project went ahead and, by the time I graduated,…
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I wonder when people will stop seeing genetic differences as a problem and not an opportunity #nwd12
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Goldstein: Colloscopy is much better than having your genome sequenced. #nwd12
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Pääbo: 75% of the brain is developed after birth making the environment important for our development. #nwd12
