BU Bioinformatics Alumnus Farren Isaacs’ Paper Makes National News (in Science, New York Times, More)
Farren Isaacs (PhD, ’04), Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at Yale, recently wrote a paper entitled “Precise Manipulation of Chromosomes in Vivo Enables Genome-Wide Codon Replacement,” and since its publication in the 15 July, 2011 issue of Science, it has been gaining increasing amounts of attention. To read further about the paper and its implications, see:
New York Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/15/health/15genome.html
New Science article: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20694-e-colis-genetic-code-has-been-rewritten.html
Science article: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/333/6040/348.full
You can learn more about Dr. Issacs and his work here.
