Monthly Archives: April 2025

FW: New Special Issue on Long-read DNA and RNA Sequencing Applications in Biology and Medicine

https://genome.cshlp.org/ april 25 issue In this Part 2 of the Special Issue on Long-read DNA Sequencing Applications in Biology and Medicine, Guest Edited by Drs. Ana Conesa, Alexander Hoischen, and Fritz Sedlazeck, Genome Research publishes a diverse collection of research … Continue reading →

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We Are Seeing More Autism, and It’s Mostly Genetic

This article [see below] just appeared this week on Medscape — and it is timely. I agree with the author that autism spectrum disorder (ASD) [a] has increased in frequency of diagnosis over the past five decades, [b] is an … Continue reading →

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The Mollusca Phylum

This publication [pdf file attached] was requested by several GEITP-ers to be featured. This topic might seem a bit distant from “gene-environment interactions.” However, from the earliest Life on Earth, organisms have been evolving — due to their genomes interacting … Continue reading →

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How Cancer Cells Travel to New Tissues and Take Hold

Amber Dance April 01, 2025 Back in 2014, a woman with advanced cancer pushed Adrienne Boire’s scientific life in a whole new direction. The cancer, which had begun in the breast, had found its way into the patient’s spinal fluid, … Continue reading →

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How Cancer Cells Travel to New Tissues and Take Hold

This article is a worthwhile read — on the topic of metastatic cancer cells. Just published on Medscape. And it is certainly within the bailiwick of gene-environment interactions: cancer cell genes, versus different cell types and extracellular signals within the … Continue reading →

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