Genetics and Health Celebrates One-Year Anniversary!
Put on your party hats! Genetics and Health is throwing a party for its first birthday!
To celebrate, I’ll be giving away a
$10 AMAZON GIFT CERTIFICATE
All you have to do is leave a relevant comment at Genetics and Health sometime between now and 6 a.m. (GMT+0) Monday, May 1, 2006.
You can either leave a comment in this post giving me some feedback about the blog, something you think is interesting about genetics, or maybe a burning question you have. Or, you can leave a relevant comment at any one of the posts I make this week.
I’ll choose one winner randomly from all the eligible comments received.
I would love to hear from you and thank you personally for coming by. I feel very grateful to have the opportunity to talk about genetics and health every day. Hope you have found it worthwhile as well.
Let the fun begin!
Update: Thanks to everyone for participating. We have a winner!
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I am going to assume that, as a B5 blogger, I am not eligible, so I will cross-post this on Babylune.
Kate: Shhh. You didn’t have to tell anyone that!!
Nice idea!
Aaron: I’ll consider the relevance of your comment at a later date. LOL
I used to give away souvenirs from wherever I’m living at the time but London is hardly as exotic as Vietnam or Japan.
Congratulations girl! This isn’t a relevent comment, but I still wanted to leave one to let you know I’m proud of you, and you give inspiration to all of us *professional bloggers* out here! =)
Alicia: Thanks!! Any comment as flattering as yours is definitely relevant.
Well, this isn’t genetically relevant, but Happy Birthday!
Joan: Hi!! As it turns out, everything is related to genetics in one way or other.
Happy Blogaversary!
enoch: Thank you, doctor!!!
I enjoy reading the genetics and health posts. I was always interested in genetics in school, but not enough to take tons of A&P and biology classes in college. I HATE those two classes. If there were a philosophical genetics curriculum, I’d take that in a heartbeat!
Even though I don’t comment much, I do read every single one. Way to go and Happy Birthday!
Just wanted to stop by and add my congratulations. A whole year!! Time sure seems to pass quickly when you are having fun!
Congrats, Hsien – here’s to another great year coming up! Cheers!
Jenmcd: Hi!!! Thanks for leaving a comment. It means a lot to me that this blog is better than some stinky class in college.
SP: Thank you so much! It has definitely been way more fun than I could have ever imagined.
Christina: Thank you!!! Couldn’t have made it this far without you.
Wishing you a Happy Blogbirthday.
I am always inspired by your blog, your writing and how you are able to make genetics so easy for me to grasp. Now if I only had you as my professor years ago, I might have gone into the hard sciences!!
Continued Success!!!!!!!
Happy Anniversary! What do you think of the possible genetic link to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?? It’s such a hard process to deal with.. Would love to have some expert advice to give my future patients!!
i just found out about chemical genetics…i think this a very interesting field in genetics that has a lot of medical applications. I bumped into one article that i blogged about here:
http://www.thepharmvoice.com/2006/04/new_strategy_in_chemical_genet.html
Deb: Thanks!! Without this blog, I would have never met you so I’m really grateful. BTW, if you ask some people, I bet they’d say biology and genetics were soft sciences too!
NPs Save Lives: Thank you!! I would emphasize to your patients that the data are still very preliminary but, hopefully, someday it will be possible to suss out the different subtypes of CFS and develop specific treatments.
For more info, see my post: Genetic Basis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Gloria: Thanks for the link, Gloria.
Congratulations, Hsien, I wish Genetics and Health and you happy blogging in the next year!
Paul: Thank you, Paul! I can’t remember which blog we met at originally but I’m glad you visit Genetics and Health too.
Actually, I have a genetics question that’s been in the back of my mind for a while: what is known about the effect of maternal regulation of gene expression during pregnancy? Is this something that would create a measurable difference in traits of children who were adopted versus those raised by mothers who used donor eggs but carried to term themselves?
L’el: Thanks for the question! There is some evidence that uterine environment does have an epigenetic effect on the genes of offspring.
You may be interested in these posts:
Mother’s Diet Influences Gene Function in Offspring
Uterine Genes Affect Embryo Survival
And, the reverse is true as well:
Fetus’s Genes Influence Pregnant Mother’s Cholesterol Levels
Added Genetics and Health as (Genetics_Health) to Live Journals Syndicated Feed.
Happy B’day!
Allyson: Thanks for your comment and for adding Genetics and Health to LJ feeds. I used to be an avid LJer too and appreciate the community spirit there.
Encouraging conversation in the health area is a great goal. I prefer this than just talking politics.
supply chain forum: Thanks for the comment! I don’t have any problems with people talking politics but I’m glad you also think blogging about health is also interesting and important.