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.

Disease Models

Study: Discoveries in Non-Human Species Could Directly Benefit Man

The uncovering by deep homology of human genes in diverse model organisms such as yeast, worms and plants has prompted some scientists to propose that useful insights into the aetiology of human diseases such as cancer could be learned from these species. S. Pelech challenges this notion and argues that outside of insights into the most basic mechanisms of cell division and death, regulatory pathways with these highly conserved genes in these model organisms actually control very different processes and extrapolations from research findings with them can be very misleading. Read More...