Genetics and Health in Duke GenomeLIFE Magazine

Last year, Nature Reviews Genetics broached the subject of genetics blogging asking Would Mendel have been a blogger? It was a shallow piece with several factual errors (for example, naming me personally but attaching Mendel’s Garden to me rather than Genetics and Health… what the @#!), but it showed that blogging is very much on the minds of scientists. The current issue of Duke GenomeLIFE (March/April 2007) examines the role of web logs in genomics and the life sciences in a piece entitled, The Revolution will be Blogged.

I am pleased to be included in the piece along with other colleagues:

• RPM at evolgen
• Razib at ScienceBlogs Gene Expression (but no mention of the team at the original Gene Expression)
• Sandra Porter at Discovering Biology in a Digital World
• Jason Bobe at The Personal Genome (one of the first genetics blogs I ever read)

And in an interesting confluence of media attention, Genetics and Health was also mentioned in a piece about medical blogging in the Detroit Free Press and in a related news clip at iHealthBeat. My heart disease blog, A Hearty Life, was today’s health editor’s pick at the LA Times.

Whew. I’m exhausted and I haven’t started going through each of the six million new genes and thousands of new protein families found in a sample of ocean microbes collected by the J. Craig Venter Institute. On the other hand, I really only care about humans so I’m off the hook.*

*In case people don’t know I’m joking, I’m fully aware that genetically engineered bacteria may someday produce alternative energy and help to counter the effects of climate change. And that we’re all in this together. More about Craig Venter’s efforts in this post.

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