leads to en.gazeta.ru, which leads to the picture linked below:

"He probably doesn't like you."
http://en.gazeta.ru/news/2012/03/30/a_4116161.shtml

0) I want ancestry.com to start promoting http://join.marrow.org/gosusan to its users ( Read more... )

Came across this slide as part of a presentation on "Immunogenomics and Stem Cell Therapeutics." http://bighealthconsortium.org/objects/pdfs/2009oct15-maiers.pdf


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My test results came back. I am not a complete match for my sister. We now need to check the registry to see if a better match is available. While you can do a transplant with a not-perfectly-matched donor, that sets up a risk of rejection and "graft vs. host disease ( Read more... )

This page has Excel spreadsheets with HLA tissue types from the December 2007 U.S. marrow donation registry broken down by which types are most common in European-American, African-American, Hispanic, and Asian/Pacific Islander registrants. Includes marginal and joint distributions for the "A," "B," and "DRB1" types which are the most critical ( Read more... )

Thanks to everyone for your support -- it means a whole lot right now. My sister, Susan, is doing really well. We've had a scary piece of news in that her leukemia has something called the "philadelphia chromosome anomaly." This indicates an aggressive cancer and pushes bone marrow transplant as the best option. Despite this, Susan's general ( Read more... )

My sister discovered this past week that she has leukemia. We are fortunate in that she found out early, but it looks like that she may still need a bone marrow transplant ( Read more... )

This popped up while searching for "dogfooding the heuristic" -- a phrase from the randomly generated hoax paper created by the SCIgen program of Stribling, Krohn, and Aguayo. (See http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/Read more... )

Actually not all that bad an explanation of it, either. John Bethencourt, call your office...

I have a car with Ford/Microsoft SYNC in it. A few quick things after using it since September ( Read more... )