The Future of Epidemiology: Next-Gen Sequencing
Over at Scientific American’s Guest Blog, I’ve got a new post up about how the latest DNA sequencing technologies is enabling changes in the field of epidemiology. Here’s an excerpt: Over four thousand people infected, nine hundred of them suffering hemolytic-uremic syndrome, a disorder whose first symptoms are vomiting and diarrhea. For fifty individuals, it ended in death. Such is the grim toll that the 2011 E. coli epidemic wrought upon Europe, and in particular France and Germany. When Yonatan Grad, an infectious disease physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and...
read moreTagged: The Lucky 7 Game!
Over at my writer’s group, Philangelus carpet-tagged a bunch of us with the Lucky 7 Game. This writer-sport’s gone viral, and though I’ve seen it spreading throughout my cyberspace haunts for a few weeks, I hadn’t been tagged until today. The rules of the game, shamelessly copied from Philangelus’s blog, are as follows: 1. Go to page 77 of your current MS 2. Go to line 7 3. Copy down the next seven lines as they’re written–no cheating! Here is my problem. My current MS is a short story I’m working on for a contest. In the unlikely event that a...
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