| Index | Recent Threads | Unanswered Threads | Who's Active | Guidelines | Search |
 |
World Community Grid Forums
Category: Completed Research
Forum: Uncovering Genome Mysteries
Thread: Interesting News Stories About Uncovering Genome Mysteries |
| No member browsing this thread |
|
Thread Status: Active Total posts in this thread: 29
|
|
| Author |
|
|
Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7844 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
|
An interesting article. The final paragraph is the most telling. Our ability to understand what we are building is much less than our building skills.
----------------------------------------I think we need to tread carefully in this area. Having the ability to create an organism, however primitive, does not necessarily mean we should do it. There may be good reasons to do it, such as modifying an existing bacteria to turn a toxic substance into something benign, when no such organism exists in nature, but we have to beware of unintended consequences. (Dolly the sheep and premature aging come to mind.) On the issue of trying to create (if that is the right word) an "artificial" human I would have serious ethical and moral misgivings. Cheers
Sgt. Joe
*Minnesota Crunchers* |
||
|
|
Jim Slade
Veteran Cruncher Joined: Apr 27, 2007 Post Count: 669 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
|
Out of Africa: DNA Analysis Points to a Single Exodus
The NIH Director's Blog reports that if you go back far enough, the ancestors of all people trace to Africa. That much is clear. We are all Africans. But there's been considerable room for debate about exactly when and how many times modern humans made their way out of Africa to take up residence in distant locations throughout the world. I's also unclear what evolutionary or other factors might have driven our human ancestors to set off on such a perilous and uncertain journey (or journeys) in the first place. https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2016/09/27/out-...to-a-single-major-exodus/  |
||
|
|
enels
Senior Cruncher Joined: Apr 25, 2008 Post Count: 286 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
|
Not new news but I hope it helps people understand we are all Africans. Back in 2002 PBS ran the documentary series 'Journey of Man' which explains it all:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-dDXIX-y6aY http://m.shoppbs.org/product/index.jsp?productId=1402989 |
||
|
|
Jim Slade
Veteran Cruncher Joined: Apr 27, 2007 Post Count: 669 Status: Offline Project Badges:
|
A Single Migration from Africa Populated the World, Studies Find
Carl Zimmer from the New York Times has an extensive article on the the report in the journal Nature. Three separate teams of geneticists survey DNA collected from cultures around the glove, many for the first time, and conclude that all non-Africans today trace their ancestry to a single population emerging from Africa between 50,000 to 80,000 years ago. http://nyti.ms./2cp5vYa |
||
|
|
Jim Slade
Veteran Cruncher Joined: Apr 27, 2007 Post Count: 669 Status: Offline Project Badges:
|
The rise of bio-rights: Patients demand control, get cash for DNA samples- The Eye
----------------------------------------Human DNA derived from biological samples - a valuable commodity in medical research - is in high demand as drug companies, the government and academic centers race to collect and analyze specimens. One research firm predicts that biological samples like those DNAsimple collect will generate $23 billion in revenue by 2018. At the same time, rising public awareness of the value of genetic data and high drug costs are dramatically changing patients' traditionally passive role in research. Before providing specimens, patients are increasingly looking for compensation, commitments that useful medical information will be returned to them, or control over how their biological samples will be studied. http://eye.necir.org/2016/10/10/rise-bio-righ...ol-get-cash--dna-samples/  [Edit 1 times, last edit by Jim Slade at Oct 10, 2016 3:46:02 PM] |
||
|
|
Jim Slade
Veteran Cruncher Joined: Apr 27, 2007 Post Count: 669 Status: Offline Project Badges:
|
How Canadian researchers reconstituted an extinct poxvirus for $100,000 using mail-order DNA
Researchers ordered commercially available DNA scraps and assembled the extinct horsepox virus fairly easily. http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/07/how-ca...0000-using-mail-order-dna |
||
|
|
Jim Slade
Veteran Cruncher Joined: Apr 27, 2007 Post Count: 669 Status: Offline Project Badges:
|
Nobel Prize goes to Savante Paabo for Neanderthal Work - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-63116304 |
||
|
|
Jim Slade
Veteran Cruncher Joined: Apr 27, 2007 Post Count: 669 Status: Offline Project Badges:
|
Interview with Sam Halabi on facilitating sharing and aggregation of pathogen genomic sequence data for public health objectives. | Audio Interview
----------------------------------------Sam Halabi is a professor of health management and policy at the Georgetown University School of Health. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. We all are trying to do this as we crunch numbers for World Community Grid. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056.NEJMp2304214 [Edit 2 times, last edit by Jim Slade at Jun 28, 2023 11:47:40 PM] |
||
|
|
Jim Slade
Veteran Cruncher Joined: Apr 27, 2007 Post Count: 669 Status: Offline Project Badges:
|
Interview with Sam Halabi on facilitating sharing and aggregation of pathogen genomic sequence data for public health objectives.
----------------------------------------Sam Halabi is a professor of health management and policy at the Georgetown University School of Health. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of theJournal. We are all trying to do this as we crunch numbers for World Community Grid. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2304214?query=NC [Edit 4 times, last edit by Jim Slade at Jun 29, 2023 2:45:40 AM] |
||
|
|
Jim Slade
Veteran Cruncher Joined: Apr 27, 2007 Post Count: 669 Status: Offline Project Badges:
|
Special Issue: "Genetic Counseling and Genetic Testing in Precision Medicine"
----------------------------------------E. Turbitt et al., Journal of Personalized Medicine Volume 13 Issue 8 July 27, 2023 Progress in genomic technologies has spurred innovation in healthcare and medicine, contributing to improved health and well-being. Delivering on the promises of precision medicine comprehensively, equitably, and promptly depends on optimizing health service delivery to facilitate access to timely, evidence-based genetic and genomic testing. Improvements in genetic counseling and testing access enable the delivery of the 'right care to the right patient at the right time'. This Special Issue of the Journal of Personalized Medicine showcases the latest research on genetic counseling and genetic testing in precision medicine. https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm13081192 [Edit 2 times, last edit by Jim Slade at Jul 28, 2023 6:03:04 AM] |
||
|
|
|