{"id":32592,"date":"2011-03-12T21:28:27","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T21:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/saturday-stuff-%e2%80%93-march-12th-2011-gene-expression\/"},"modified":"2011-03-12T21:28:27","modified_gmt":"2011-03-12T21:28:27","slug":"saturday-stuff-%e2%80%93-march-12th-2011-gene-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/saturday-stuff-%e2%80%93-march-12th-2011-gene-expression.php","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Stuff \u2013 March 12th, 2011 | Gene Expression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6348 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/93887_FF3.png\" alt=\"FF3\" width=\"600\" height=\"100\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p><p><strong>Due to a &ldquo;busy&rdquo; cat-schedule, the regular Friday posting was delayed for one day. If you have a problem with it, the individual with whom you can take it up is indefinitely taking a nap. So good luck with that!<\/strong><\/p><p>1) First, a <strong>post from the past<\/strong>: <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/on-generality-of.php\">The Dark Age Mighty Whitey<\/a>.<\/p><p>2) <strong>Weird search query of the week<\/strong>: &ldquo;kristin kreuk with glasses.&rdquo;<\/p><p>3) <strong>Comment of the week<\/strong>, in response to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2011\/03\/your-genes-your-rights-fdas-jeffrey-shuren-not-a-fan\/#comment-59578\">&ldquo;Your genes, your rights &ndash; FDA&rsquo;s Jeffrey Shuren misleading testimony under oath&rdquo;<\/a>, there were many good comments. But I&rsquo;ll highlight this one from Dan:<\/p><blockquote><p><i>Furthermore, all CLIA certified operations have to pass very stringent proficiency testing to maintain their certification. There is no such oversight for DTC operations,<\/i><\/p><p>Joe has already noted that 23andMe, deCODEme and Pathway are CLIA-certified. I can tell you that Navigenics is as well. You&rsquo;re right that some of the scurrilous operators aren&rsquo;t CLIA-licensed, and that should be stopped &ndash; but that isn&rsquo;t the responsibility of the FDA.<\/p><p>Even those of us who oppose FDA involvement in DTC typically agree that regulation of analytic validity is important (CLIA is actually a terrible system in many ways, but there currently isn&rsquo;t ...<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/93887_lEhsGFtqmB8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p><\/blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/93887_oZYietIWJxw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to a &ldquo;busy&rdquo; cat-schedule, the regular Friday posting was delayed for one day. If you have a problem with it, the individual with whom you can take it up is indefinitely taking a nap. So good luck with that!1) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/saturday-stuff-%e2%80%93-march-12th-2011-gene-expression.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}