Who should hold the keys to your DNA?

Who should hold the keys to your DNA?

Who Owns Your DNA?

Stanford Genetics Professor Michael Snyder’s book, Genomics & Personalized Medicine: What Everyone Needs to Know, is a work to be enjoyed on multiple levels. Designed for a broad audience, the book delivers a great deal of detail for the scientifically savvy while still providing a generalized overview for the yet-to-be-initiated. Although brief, the book is timely, having followed closely on t...

Who should manage your social media strategy?

In what case do you like reading so much? What about the type of the who should manage your social media strategy book? The needs to read? Well, everybody has their own reason why should read some books. Mostly, it will relate to their necessity to get knowledge from the book and want to read just to get entertainment. Novels, story book, and other entertaining books become so popular this day....

Hold your breath!

R egeneration, the process by which an animal restores lost cells or body parts, occurs throughout the animal kingdom, including vertebrates, planarians and cnidarians such as hydra (Tanaka & Reddien, 2011). However, the ability to regenerate varies between species, and within a species it can be different for different body parts. Salamanders, such as axolotls and newts, possess the most impre...

Who owns your DNA? who will own It?

Q uietly and doggedly, a race is going on in laboratories around the world—the race to determine who will own human heritage. calls the US and British sequencing teams chasing the full sequence of the human genome at breakneck speed. On the other side is the private sector, most notably Craig Venter, PhD, chief scientific officer of Celera, a genomics company. Each group has the same mission: t...