Blog Comments

Kinetica Online is pleased to provide direct links to commentaries from our senior editor Dr. Steven Pelech has posted on other blogs sites. Most of these comments appear on the GenomeWeb Daily Scan website, which in turn highlight interesting blogs that have been posted at numerous sites in the blogosphere since the beginning of 2010. A wide variety of topical subjects are covered ranging from the latest scientific breakthroughs, research trends, politics and career advice. The original blogs and Dr. Pelech’s comments are summarized here under the title of the original blog. Should viewers wish to add to these discussions, they should add their comments at the original blog sites.

The views expressed by Dr. Pelech do not necessarily reflect those of the other management and staff at Kinexus Bioinformatics Corporation. However, we wish to encourage healthy debate that might spur improvements in how biomedical research is supported and conducted.

Bacteria testing

Poop Speaks

Bloomberg Businessweek reported that Eric Schadt at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Pacific Biosciences predicts a future in which special toilets collect stool samples that can then be sent off for sequencing to identify pathogens in spots like airports or emergency rooms to monitor public health concerns, like flu outbreaks. S. Pelech comments that it's kind of appropriate! Since most of the DNA sequence in genomes is crap, we may as well sequence DNA in crap. Read More...