by Jerome De Groot | Nov 19, 2019 | DNA and health, DNA library, Visualising DNA
In ‘The Library of Babel’ (1941), Jorge Luis Borges imagines a vast library that contains ‘no two identical books’.[1] Instead, the library contains all books that might be printed using 22 characters plus the comma and the period: ‘each shelf contains thirty-five...
by Jerome De Groot | Nov 16, 2019 | Uncategorised
This event was on the 15 November, hosted at the Manchester Central Library and featuring workshops by Reece Williams, Mariah Whelan, and Tessa Harris. Photographs of some of the cut-up poems that were made are below. The event was part of the Being Human festival...
by Jerome De Groot | Aug 1, 2019 | Uncategorised
We’re planning a series of events for DNA Day 2020, the anniversary of Crick & Watson’s paper in Nature describing the double helix structure of DNA. It is also 30 years since the beginning of the Human Genome Project. Events will take place all over...
by Jerome De Groot | May 21, 2019 | Uncategorised
My article on DNA and Family History – including discussion of ethics, global family history, and the pros and cons of DNA for genealogy – is now on the Who Do You Think You Are? magazine’s website:...
by Jerome De Groot | May 20, 2019 | DNA and health, Ethics
A guest blog on DNA, genealogy, ethics from Dr Carolyn Huston. Carolyn, a former GP, gives regular talks and workshops on family history and medicine, particularly with focus on death certificates. Here she gives us some reflections on DNA, health, and data. As an...
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