Diverse Perspectives on Science and Medicine
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The order is rapidly fading

25 May 2012 Amy Gutmann, PhD Chair, The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues 1425 New York Avenue NW Suite C–100 Washington, DC 20005 Re: Comments on the ethical issues raised by the ready availability of large-scale human genome sequence data, with regard to privacy and data access and the balancing of individual and societal...

Wed Jul 3, 2013 06:49
You have come so many miles

Durham–the whole Triangle really–has so many amazing bands…like this one.

Wed Jul 3, 2013 06:49
I ain’t got no alibi

In April I attended the Genomes Environments Traits conference, along with a couple hundred other people, many of whom were and are participants in the Personal Genome Project. This was the first year that GET felt more like a coming-out party than a cultish gathering of fringe -omics enthusiasts.  Yes, there was still a bit of a dewy-eyed utopianism ...

Wed Jul 3, 2013 06:49
Unidentified Flying Subjects

Last week I was at the National Cancer Institute Think Tank on the Identifiability of Genomic Data and Biospecimens, a gathering of a few dozen people aimed at hashing out how human tissue and genomic data should be handled in the era of dirt-cheap DNA sequencing and ubiquitous sharing of information. It was fascinating, exhilarating, frustrating and...

Wed Jul 3, 2013 06:49
I nearly died from hospitality

In PLoS Medicine Basu et al report on a systematic meta-analytic comparison of private and public health care systems in low- and middle-income countries such as Viet Nam, Namibia, Tanzania, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, India and Peru. They extracted data from 102 publications and divided their findings into six health care-system themes: accessibility and...

Wed Jul 3, 2013 06:49
A Mayan discovery

Maya is a four-year old delight. She’s wiggly and giggly and has a partner in crime, her dog Parker. She loves animals, other kids, being naughty, and life as a whole. She has also undergone multiple operations, does not speak, and is developmentally delayed. No one knows why. As her mother Dana wrote a couple of weeks ago, “When you’ve been looking...

Wed Jul 3, 2013 06:49

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