Omic.ly Weekly 32 July 7, 2024 Hey There! Thanks for spending part of your Sunday with Omic.ly! If you're enjoying what you're reading, please feel free to share it with your friends and colleagues who might get a kick out of it too! This Week's Headlines
Evolution Why do women live longer than men? Sperm production is expensive Are you a guy? Do you want to live longer? It might be time to ditch your sperm.
Genetics Genealogy databases aren't just for finding your relatives anymore The killer app for consumer genetics literally is to catch killers. Here's why:
Genetics The 'Histone Code' fundamentally changed how we think about gene expression Histones were once thought to just be dumb structural proteins that held chromatin together; now we know that the ‘histone code’ is a major regulator of gene expression.
Omic.ly Weekly 31 June 30, 2024 Hey There! Thanks for spending part of your Sunday with Omic.ly! But, do you have a friend or a colleague who you think might also enjoy this newsletter? Feel free to forward and make them fans of Omic.ly too! This Week's Headlines 1)
Paid-members only Start-Upomics Tempus' good very bad week included a $410m IPO, a lawsuit and a ~$20 swing in their post-IPO stock price
Autoimmunity A new genetic cause for Inflammatory Bowel Disease has been discovered Inflammatory diseases affect 5% of the population but we have a poor understanding of how to treat them. Multi-omic studies are changing that.
Breakthroughs mRNA vaccines almost weren't a thing It is estimated that COVID-19 vaccination has prevented over 20 million deaths worldwide. We can thank the dogged perseverance of a browbeaten scientist for that.
Omic.ly Weekly 30 June 23, 2024 Hey There! Thanks for spending part of your Sunday with Omic.ly! This Week's Headlines 1) A new genetic cause for Inflammatory Bowel Disease has been discovered 2) A trip down the Omics rabbit hole 3) mRNA vaccines almost weren't a thing Here&
Paid-members only High-Throughput Sequencing If you thought the sequencing wars were hot already, have you considered what a $10 genome might do to them?
Evolution Have you ever wanted a superpower? Me too! Some human populations have genes that would make even Poseidon jealous!
Metabolome Metabolomics: Hype or Heroine? How does the promise of metabolomics stack up against our current reality? It’s complicated.
DNA The 2-D structure of tRNA was solved in 1965, its solver probably isn't someone you've heard of before The next great mystery to solve after the discovery of the DNA double helix was to figure out how the nucleotide sequence coded for proteins.
