What Will Be Your Legacy?

Genomic data-sharing: what will be our legacy?

Prior to 1974, the Tuskegee Syphilis experiments, expansive use of the HeLa cells, and other blatant instances of research abuse pervaded the medical research field. Ongoing challenges to informed consent, privacy and data-sharing will influence the stories that research participants today share with future generations. This has significant implications for the advancement of genomic science, a...

What is and what will be

This version of What is and what will be has images distributed throughout the text as visual poetry. The images were mostly taken at Esalen Institute near Big Sur California and at my home in the Santa Cruz Mountains near San Jose California. The dolphin pictures and a few others were taken in Hawaii. The images in this version are formatted at 72 dots per inch. This is suitable for viewing on...

What will you do with your life?

31 years ago, Donald Trump said in an interview: "I'll be 36 next year and I've done everything I can do. Sometimes I think it was a mistake to have raced through it all so fast. What's the next level up? The grass isn't always greener . . . I work, and I don't worry. How can you top that? . . . I protect myself as well as anybody can. I prepare for things but ultimately we all end up going . ....

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Leaders Prion diseases: what will be next?

In recent history there is probably no group of disease that has caused more surprises or shocks than the group of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, or prion diseases as they have become known. Grouped together on the basis of their neuropathology, showing vacuolation of the neuropil or neurones, or both (spongiform change) (fig 1), they present a variable clinical picture; nevertheles...