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What would it feel like to be the last “one” on earth? Sudan is the last male northern white rhino on the face of planet and he is surrounded by armed guards 24 hours a day. The guards and dogs [...]

Hello Blog World! I am a new molecular biologist at Cofactor Genomics, and I must admit that I haven’t been around RNA Seq applications long enough to write the stellar blog posts that my [...]

Those that know me well know that I am all about the interface between the genomics and the phenotype, the dynamic part of the biological system referred to in our industry as functional [...]

In my last blog I began a discussion on the many different DNA and RNA modifications that can modulate gene expression as part of a complex system. Over the next few blog posts I will be [...]

In staying up to date with the latest trends in industry, the folks at Cofactor, myself included, often take a look at some popular blogs and other sources of information.  Recently while [...]

Reading Carrie Arnold’s excellent article on Carl Woese brought back memories of my own. Carl was a huge influence on me and my first mentor, Ross Overbeek. Ross was a mathematician and computer [...]

Recently I had the opportunity to volunteer my time at the Saint Louis Science Center, helping out with one of their programs called DNA Gene Shorts. While arranging my schedule at work to allow [...]