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Rewritten in Our DNA: Measurements for Genome Editing

September 23, 2019
Samantha Maragh
I didn’t understand what people were asking me when I was a kid. The question would come in several different forms. Sometimes it was “What are you?” Other times it was “Where are you from?” I would answer with things I knew to be true, like “I’m a girl” or “I’m a person” or “I’m from Maryland,” in
Justin Zook in a lab surrounded by genetic sequencing machines

Genome in a Bottle: Spelling Out DNA’s ‘Dark’ Sequences

March 6, 2019
Justin Zook
When the Human Genome Project began 20 years ago, its consortium of researchers at 20 research institutes spent more than $1 billion to sequence that first genome’s billion plus bases. Recently, researchers from the Harvard Personal Genome Project (PGP) sent me my whole genome sequence, costing
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Top NIST Images of 2018

February 6, 2019
Robin Materese
There’s nothing quite like a captivating image to make you want to learn more. And nowhere is that more apparent than when it comes to sometimes hard-to-understand science. Before we all get too settled into 2019, we thought we’d take a look back at some of our best pictures from 2018. If you missed