This approach also allows a PI who may not be part of a formal consortium, to showcase an individual species, interface with the public to promote the project’s importance and other biological contexts which all help explain the necessities for sequencing whole genomes.

Also see the fantastic Sanger blog by Carmen Denman Hume sangerinstitute.blog/2025/07/03/e...

Nice image work, and fitting that a delectable Mexican fast food shaped like a female reproductive organ swallows up the orange narcissist.

I finished my dissertation in the MD/DC area 30 years ago and loved visiting the nation's capital on special events. I took this serendipitous shot during a parade and believe it epitomizes our democracy. Hidden behind the people is "Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty". So true now.