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I recently heard about a upcoming computer game called Cellcraft. The website isn’t updated much, but you can check it out at http://www.cellcraftgame.com/. It’s being made somewhere in North Carolina, but details on the web site are scarce. Anyway, the point of the project is to use a computer game to teach cell biology. This [...]

In my opinion, scientific writing is often poor. All too often, when I try to read a paper, I find myself having to re-read sentences or paragraphs before I finally understand the meaning. Much of the time, I can figure out ways to say the important points in fewer words with better structure. Of course, [...]

I was looking around to try to find a good short explanation of what allelic imbalance is, but was unable to find one. I eventually figured it out, and wanted to make a post to clarify this for future searchers:
What is allelic imbalance?

A difference in the expression between two alleles.

Humans are diploid organisms, which means [...]