HOW CHRIST WON MY HEART

How the quest was won

Not long after Jim Watson's The Double Helix appeared, there was talk about making a movie about the DNA story. The author of the book took this very seriously and did not find all the many suggestions made to him very helpful. One idea put forward was that Jim should be played by Woody Allen and Francis Crick by Peter O'Toole. Another was to do it as a musical with a dance based on the entwini...

Nail in my heart

Case presentation 23 year old Myamnmar gentleman was brought to the ED, Hospital Ampang. He accidently shot a 5cm nail into his left chest wall while working at a construction site. His airway was patent and vital signs were stable, however complaints of left chest pain with minimal shortness of breath. The nail was firmly cemented to the medial side of his left nipple. Bedside ultrasound was p...

Won For All: How the Drosophila Genome Was Sequenced

In The Strongest Boy’s title essay, Reilly tells the story of a German newborn whose strangely muscled physique is due to a frame shift mutation in the aforementioned muscle inhibitor, myostatin. As a result, his 7-month-old thighs look like those of a miniscule Lance Armstrong. His mother, a heterozygote and professional athlete, already has hidden him from public view, shielding him from scru...

How old is my gene?

Gene functions, interactions, disease associations, and ecological distributions are all correlated with gene age. However, it is challenging to estimate the intricate series of evolutionary events leading to a modern-day gene and then to reduce this history to a single age estimate. Focusing on eukaryotic gene families, we introduce a framework that can be used to compare current strategies fo...

How my genome was hacked