Realizing the benefits of human genetics and genomics research for people everywhere.
Nascent Transcript Author: Honey Reddi, PhD, FACMG. Conceptually “Mentoring up” is about empowering mentees to be active participants in their mentoring relationships by understanding that the responsibility for success requires equal contributions from both the mentor and the mentee. The ASHG Career Development committee as part of its annual meeting organized a session on this topic. ... Read More
Nascent Transcript Author: Latrice Landry, PhD. You may have noticed it by now, but in addition to the scientific concepts, research skills, and good science communication [including presentation and writing], your career requires you to be skilled at having difficult conversations. This has never been more true than now. The pandemic has caused the infrastructure... Read More
One needs only to re-watch that famous scene in the classic movie The Princess Bride to see that the concept of poison can be as fascinating as it is deadly. The term “poison” evokes a killer chemical made by human hands, but most poisons are actually naturally occurring, such as the tetrodotoxin (TTX) found in... Read More
As the U.S. and other countries rally to address the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, genetics remains front and center. Here, we discuss four points about COVID-19 that every genetics trainee should know. Point 1: Genetics is Central to COVID-19 Testing. Testing is not only central to the diagnosis of patients presenting with symptoms but... Read More
National DNA Day, designated as April 25th by the 108th U.S. Congress, celebrates the DNA double helix discovery of 1953 and the completion of the human genome project as two of the most significant scientific accomplishments in the past 100 years. ASHG has a long tradition of celebrating DNA day through a variety of individual... Read More