I know. We’ve spoken a lot about the ENCODE Project recently (see European contribution to the ENCODE genome project and ENCODE Project Simplified) but the project has taught us a great deal about the genome and we just can’t seem to get enough of it. That’s why, when I came across this entertaining video on [...]
Genome Research publishes online and in print today a special issue dedicated to The ENCODE (ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements) Project, whose goal is to characterize all functional elements in the human genome. Since the completion of the pilot phase of the project in 2007, covering 1% of the genome, The ENCODE Consortium has fanned out [...]
Yesterday, BBC Health ran a short story about the Wellcome Trust sponsored Mind Over Matter Project which takes a look at the personal stories of 12 elderly people who donated their brains for research. According to one of the video’s narrators (who I assume is artist Ania Dabrowska, creator of the project), while most people [...]
Check out this wild story from the PHG Foundation! The Faroe Islands, a self-governing group of islands within the Kingdom of Denmark, are to become the world’s first nation offering full genome sequencing to every citizen. All 50,000 inhabitants will have the opportunity to participate in the new FarGen project, which will link genome sequence [...]
A nice, basic explanation of how epigenetics works. Tweet This Post
