At a recent Ion World event right before this year’s ASHG meeting in Boston, Dr. Eric Topol gave a keynote talk entitled “Breakthroughs in Sequencing and the Future of Health Care”. He began his talk by asking for a show of hands in the audience present (over 300), “How many […]
FiOS is a great service. If you have access to it where you happen to live (and Verizon is getting better as the years go on), do check it out. As one who has had DirecTV for many years in CA, and then Comcast for about 3 years here in […]
The house I live in is very nice. As a matter of fact, it is the nicest house I’ve ever lived in¹. Yet it seems like no matter how many things we improve, there is always ‘one more thing’ to make it nicer. Built in the 1970’s, it was built […]
I like hearing from recruiters, and can say that not only because they are salespeople and I am a salesperson at heart. They can be a critical source of difficult to find information, such as their ‘people network’ as well as which employer is looking for which type of talent. […]
You just purchased a shiny new iPhone, and may be wondering how to quickly get up and running with it. (I myself obtained the family’s first iPhone just a few months ago, an iPhone 4, as the 4S was a little too steep for my manager’s budget.) And since it […]
After a two-year stint as a high-school biology / chemistry teacher (at an acclaimed high school in Fullerton, CA called Troy, right at the time it was developing a STEM magnet curriculum which was right in my wheelhouse, so to speak), I was ready to go back to school way-back-when […]
Any healthy diet has a good balance: regular ‘staples’, a fair amount of variety, and the occassional surprise ‘treat’. For next-generation sequencing, the web offers unparalled information to keep up-to-date. Here is a short list of four sites that compose a healthy NGS diet – everyday staples and a lot […]
