Are dreams of Jurassic Park extinct?
A paper published October 10, 2012 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society Biological Sciences attempts to measure the half life of DNA. (Full text not available for free but a good overview can be found here in Nature news.) By measuring the decay of mitochondrial DNA in bone samples of the extinct New Zealand...
Time to write human genomes
In 1990, scientists launched one of the largest international collaborations in life science, an effort to sequence the human genome. This work inspired a new generation of genetic researchers and led to countless breakthroughs in new technologies, informatics, and medicine. I was one of the researchers who had their careers launched by this effort. Now,...
