Another month, another paper, and like with last month’s, I picked another genetics paper, this time covering an interesting quirk of immunology. This month’s paper from Nature talks about a species of fish that has made it to the dinner plates of many: the Atlantic Cod (Gadus morhua). The researchers applied shotgun sequencing techniques to [...]
Another month, another paper (although this one is almost two weeks overdue – sorry!) In my life in venture capital, I’ve started more seriously looking at new bioinformatics technologies so I decided to dig into a topic that is right up that alley. This month’s paper from Nature Biotechnology covers the use of next-generation DNA [...]
The whole no internet thing really de-railed my plans on blogging one paper every month, so I’m hoping I can make up for lost time this final week of December! The paper I will talk about is from April of this year and highlights the diversity of our “gut flora” (a pleasant way to describe [...]
Another month, another paper to read and blog about. Most people know that viruses are notoriously tricky disease-causing pathogens to tackle. Unlike bacteria which are completely separate organisms, viruses are parasites which use a host cell’s own DNA-and-RNA-and-protein producing mechanisms to reproduce. As a result, most viruses are extremely small, as they need to find [...]