For Immediate Release Wednesday, February 21, 2018 12:00 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time Media Contact: Nalini Padmanabhan ASHG Director of Communications & Marketing 301.634.7346 press@ashg.org BETHESDA, MD – The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) is pleased to announce that Kelly Ventura, MHA, joined the organization this month as Senior Director of Education and Membership. In... Read More
For Immediate Release Tuesday, February 13, 2018 12:30 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time Media Contact: Nalini Padmanabhan ASHG Director of Communications & Marketing 301.634.7346 press@ashg.org BETHESDA, MD – The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) is disappointed by the Administration’s proposed Fiscal Year 2019 National Institutes of Health (NIH) budget released yesterday. This budget would impose... Read More
What's it like to be a DNA Day essay judge? Dennis Drayna shares his experience, including observations on STEM's future and the changing role of Wikipedia. Read More
Written by Nascent Transcript writer Sarah A. Gagliano, PhD February 2018 A publicly available resource of half a million individuals with genetic data, and thousands of diverse phenotypes, is a worthy cause for celebration in the genetic research community. The UK Biobank is currently the largest genotyped prospective cohort available to researchers worldwide. For those... Read More
Written by Nascent Transcript writer Sumantra Chatterjee, PhD February 2018 Almost 180 years ago, Theodor Schwann, Matthias Schleiden, and Rudolf Virchow laid down three fundamental tenets of biology collectively called the “cell theory”. Since then, the principles that the cell is the most basic unit of life, all living organisms are composed of cells, and... Read More
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