Hello again, my loyal blogventurer. The hectic nature of my life continues, though to my joy genomes are starting to fall into place (computationally, that is, not by insemination. Though doubtless that has also been going on. If not, god help us all). However, I think all this business is leading to general mental decline. Yesterday, in a fit of flustered Britishness, I thanked an ATM after using it, an event which, on retelling. triggering a ‘not-adapted-to-the-modern-world five’ from a quick-witted colleague.
Rambling introductory material aside, a few things have occured in the past week that have rekindled my passion for medical genetics. A few of us put together a talk on monoclonal antibodies (an awesome medical technology, which if you are lucky I may talk about in the future), and I signed up to work on disease gene association in the coming months. The latter I have a special affection for, an affection which I shall now point at you.
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