Weekly Twitter Roundup

I stole this great idea from Genomics Law Report and The Genetic Genealogist.  For folks on Twitter, you can follow me here.  Otherwise, here are my tweets from the past week:

• LavaAmp: cheapest pocket PCR thermocycler dreamed for DIY biologists – http://bit.ly/627W4l #DIYbio HT @bookhling
• That adult tissues can be transformed … is surprising enough … by changing a single gene is astonishing – http://bit.ly/87Uy9K
• Study is the first to identify points of DNA damage within a single gene that are linked with psychiatric illness – http://bit.ly/4GcALB
• Old news, but new to me and interesting: Lawsuit Challenging Myriad’s BRCA1 and BRCA2 Patents Will Go Forward – http://bit.ly/64fcpK
• Genealogy can be fun! Megan Smolenyak on wacky names of the past – http://bit.ly/6VSzvl
• Good piece about 23andMe’s Relative Finder and how to use it for genealogy – http://bit.ly/7aUyxq
• Just uploaded my 23andMe data to deCODEme – http://bit.ly/86Xtsh – see Genetic Future for good analysis and warnings- http://bit.ly/jrowt
• Looks like fun! DNA extraction night – http://bit.ly/8OFkjM
• genomePad – UCSC Genome Browser for the iPhone- http://bit.ly/5ewqH3 – HT OpenHelix – http://bit.ly/5jP71q
• The message is not “Here’s your destiny. Get used to it!” It’s “Here’s your destiny, you can do something about it!” – http://bit.ly/69oaML
• New major study on African ancestry – http://bit.ly/8mN5Hy
• RT @stevesilberman: Is religion imprinted in our genes? NYT on Nicholas Wade’s “The Faith Instinct” – http://bit.ly/7gEu7Y 8:03 PM
• RT @stevesilberman: Genomic encyclopedia of microbes published, mapping “phylogenetic dark matter” – http://bit.ly/8HFoi5 7:56 PM
• RT JamieBeach Neat article on do it yourself biology (#DIYbio) from SF Chronicle: http://is.gd/5A2zn