Earlier this month, I had the good fortune to attend a research seminar by Lalita Ramakrishnan, a microbiologist from the University of Washington. Ramakrishnan and colleagues have been studying the infection of larval zebrafish by Mycobacterium marinum. M....
In a previous post (http://evomed.org/?p=1034), I discussed a study from Stuart Orkin’s lab that illustrated the exploitation of genetic variants that influence a disease-related phenotype to design a possible therapy for a murine version of sickle cell disease. ...
The consortium of investigators known as ENCODE (ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements) published, with much publicity, a series of about thirty papers last fall purporting to “identify all functional elements in the human genome sequence” (https://www.genome.gov/ENCODE/). ...
In the past six months, I have encountered a review, by Thomas Nagel in The New York Review of Books (2012), of Alvin Plantinga’s latest book (Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism, 2011 ) and a review, by Alvin Plantinga in The New...
Recently, a valued friend and scientific colleague of mine (Jonathan Yewdell of the NIAID in Bethesda) made me aware of a netcast (http://www.twiv.tv/) and associated blog (http://www.virology.ws/) relating to virology. The originator of both is Vincent...
