James Urton
James gained his PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology from University of Washington.
Articles by James Urton
Biologists have long appreciated the complexity of genome organization, but until recently lacked the tools to discern the intricacies of this puzzle. Now, thanks to some handy cross-linking, careful amplification, and (of course!) next generation sequencing, teams from Massachusetts are taking us down the rabbit hole, with some surprising findings from Wonderland. Bend Over Backwards…
Genetic testing has been with us for a century. It began with blood typing and tests for metabolic disorders like phenylketonuria (check the warning label on a can of Diet Coke), and by the mid-20th century we’d progressed to clinical cytogenetics. Chromosome spreads on a slide helped diagnose aneuploidies such as Down Syndrome (trisomy 21), sex chromosome disorders,…