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Trainee Author: Janson White, PhD Senior Fellow Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington (Photo courtesy White) White JJ, et al. WNT Signaling Perturbations Underlie the Genetic Heterogeneity of Robinow Syndrome. AJHG. 2018 Jan 4;102(1):27-43. This study was selected for the Trainee Paper Spotlight because it uses extensive genetic and genomic studies to identify new pathogenic... Read More

Written by Nascent Transcript writer Sandra Smieszek August 2018  Longevity–an individual’s lifespan under ideal conditions–and healthy aging are among the most complex phenotypes studied to date. Human lifespan varies greatly, with life expectancy ranging from 47.5 in Sierra Leone to 79.8 in the United States and 87.2 years in Monaco. Currently, the world is home... Read More

Written by Nascent Transcript writer Allison McCague August 2018 May 21 of this year marked the tenth anniversary of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA), a landmark piece of legislation that Senator Ted Kennedy—one of the sponsors of the bill—called “the first civil rights bill of the new century of the life sciences.” GINA’s passage was the... Read More

Postdoc applications 101: Conference to Career alumnus Rohit Thakur shares his advice for when, where, and how to effectively apply for postdocs. Read More

Trainee Author: Kevin Gillinder, PhD Research Fellow Australian Centre for Blood Diseases, Monash University, Australia (Photo courtesy Gillinder) Gillinder KR, et al. Promiscuous DNA-binding of a mutant zinc finger protein corrupts the transcriptome and diminishes cell viability. NAR. 2017 Feb 17;45(3):1130-1143 This is the first study to show neomorphic functions in a zinc finger binding... Read More