by Andrew Su | Jul 9, 2014 | BioGPS, crowdsourcing, Gene Wiki, jobs, mygene.info, recruiting, research
Several months ago I put out a call for postdocs applicants. Combined with other recruiting efforts, the lab has grown with several new positions — two postdocs (starting in the fall, and more upcoming interviews), our Scientific Outreach Program Manager, and an...
by Melissa Lau | Jul 7, 2014 | BioGPS, GeneOfTheWeek
Today’s funerary practices might include trends like eco-friendly burial shrouds and artificial reefs made from cremated remains, but for the Fore tribespeople in Papua New Guinea, their traditional mortuary ritual involved a different custom… cannibalism. Although...
by ginger | Jul 4, 2014 | BioGPS, Su lab members, sulab, work
Remember Last week when I confessed to posting my second impressions of two of the geniuses from the Su Lab? Though I had a chance to more accurately portray one of the two aforementioned geniuses, I didn’t have a chance to explain the other one…the...
by Melissa Lau | Jun 30, 2014 | BioGPS, breast cancer, cancer, GeneOfTheWeek
America is failing. Or rather… our infrastructure is. According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, the condition and performance of our infrastructure is so poor, that we failed their “2013 Report Card” with a resounding grade of D+.1 Besides being...
by Kerin Higa | Jun 23, 2014 | BioGPS, GeneOfTheWeek
Medicinal mushrooms (MMs) have been used as natural medicines for millennia. Today, there are approximately 1.5 million species of fungi on Earth, and at least 300 species of mushrooms have been found to possess therapeutic properties1. These MMs have over 100 (!)...
by Melissa Lau | Jun 16, 2014 | BioGPS, GeneOfTheWeek
1981 was an eventful year. The Iran Hostage Crisis had finally ended. Ronald Reagan became the 40th President of the United States, and shortly thereafter, survived an assassination attempt. In the soap opera General Hospital, the marriage of two beloved characters...
