Chief's Blog
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Bad Luck
I’ve had this conversation a hundred times. My patient, still stunned by her recent breast cancer diagnosis, asks the “why me?’ question.
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Could You Be any Cuter? Genome Editing and the Future of the Human Species
The story goes back three years to the development of CRISPR/Cas-9 technology for gene editing by Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier.
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Triple Crown
I am no racing fanatic. I have never been to the track, know virtually nothing about horses, and can go years without seeing the Kentucky Derby on TV.
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Passings
There is something about the end of a year that renders one more thoughtful, makes one look back rather than forward.
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Smaller
My favorite movie of 2013 will not win an Oscar. Entitled “A Boy and His Atom,” it is directed and produced by IBM scientists, and is a totally charming short celebrating nanotechnology. You actually view individual atoms being moved around.
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The Things We Pass On
I thought that there could not have been any better year for genomics than 2012, but the last year or so has matched it.