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Gene Genie: a Famous Blog Carnival’s Sixth Issue
You may realized that our favourite blog carnival, Gene Genie has been mentioned in the last issue of Cell. So as it became a famous blog carnival with the goal of covering the whole genome before...
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Gene Genie #7 is up at the Gene Sherpa!
One of the best editions ever has been posted at the Gene Sherpa. The topic is (surprising, right?) personalized genetics. Steve Murphy covered the subject with interesting descriptions and collected...
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Personalized Genetics/Genomics: Blogterview with Steven Murphy, MD
I’ve recently decided to deepen my knowledge on the field of personalized genetics/genomics as it has an exceptional future in the realm of medicine (and business). And who is the right person to...
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Genetic Wikis
I hope that David Rothman will like this little list of genetic wikis. The first three wikis are from Wetpaint, where you can create your own wiki. I’ve learnt about it at Medical 2.0. Genetics Class...
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Genetic Breakthroughs for Today
Three announcements that could have a big impact on genetic testing: New breast cancer genes discovery Scientists have developed a new technique to identify genes that increase the chance of women...
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Genetic Testing: BlogMix and a funny video
I’ve been totally busy because of my summer practice at the department of pediatrics. I’ve seen many cases when genetic tests are needed (a strange haemophilia-related case, hereditary spherocytosis,...
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Mendel’s Garden #17: Blog Carnival of Genetics
This time, it’s the honor of Scienceroll to host Mendel’s Garden, the blog carnival totally devoted to all the fields of genetics. I thought I couldn’t find enough articles as most of the bloggers were...
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Gene Genie #19: Geneticalization
Many thanks to Ricardo Vidal for the logo! Gene Genie is the blog carnival of genes and gene-related diseases. Our plan is to cover the whole genome before 2082 (it means 14-15 genes every two weeks)....
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23andMe: The Re-Review
A week ago, I wrote a review about the three major companies focusing on personalized genetics. That time, I couldn’t include all the required information in the section of 23andMe. Now, here is the...
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A Google-Powered Gene Sequence Web Search Engine
Yesterday, David Rothman shared an interesting application with me. Query Gene is a Google-powered search engine with which you can combine text and gene sequence fragment web searches. What can you do...
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Steps Forward in Clinical Genetics
As I promised I’m here again to keep you up-to-date about the wonderful realm of clinical genetics. While there is a shortage of geneticists in the US and in other parts of the world as well, we can...
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Gene Genie #23: Paradise of Genomics
Is it a paradise? You can decide after going through all the submitted articles. It’s my pleasure to host the newest edition of Gene Genie, the blog carnival of clinical genetics and personalized...
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Wikipedia: Reliable Sources and Gene Wiki
Wikipedia is a good first place to go to do your research, but should never be the last place to finish with! We’ve got more than 2 million articles now so our only aim at this stage is to fill up the...
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Demo Account at 23andMe: Analyze Your Demo Genes!
I thought I should create an account at 23andMe and see what happens with my demo genes. Of course, you cannot analyze your own genes (or you can, if you ordered their service), but the genetic...
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Personalized Genetics: Research in the News
When I started to share the most recent news and improvements of personalized genetics or genomic medicine, it wasn’t an easy job to find 4-5 articles a week. Now, my bookmark is totally full and I...
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Personalized Medicine: Real Clinical Examples!
There are more than 60 articles in the personalized medicine category on my blog and I have a page dedicated to this emerging field of medicine. I also wrote a summary about it. But now it is time to...
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Gene2MeSH: Automated Literature Based Genome Annotation
Some weeks ago, I mentioned on Twitter how hard it is to find proper gene-disease associations in Pubmed, the database of health-science data. Some days later, P. F. Anderson sent me this link:...
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Gene Genie 34: Summertime
This is the first time I host Gene Genie since January. Gene Genie is the blog carnival of clinical genetics and personalized medicine. Enjoy the numerous posts and articles focusing on these...
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Potential new treatment for cystic fibrosis?
I just found an interesting article at the PHG Foundation about a new potential treatment for cystic fibrosis, a genetic condition affecting the exocrine (mucus) glands of the lungs, liver, pancreas,...
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Wikis as Tools in Genetics
I’ve been planning to write about these wikis that can be very useful tools in the hands of researchers for a long time. The first one is WikiPathway which is an open platform dedicated to the curation...
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