{"id":1754,"date":"2008-12-07T17:49:22","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T15:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=1754"},"modified":"2008-12-07T17:49:22","modified_gmt":"2008-12-07T15:49:22","slug":"how-to-explain-genomics-to-lay-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2008\/12\/how-to-explain-genomics-to-lay-people\/","title":{"rendered":"How to explain genomics to lay people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had to give several lectures last week explaining lay people how genomic studies work. I finally decided to compare the human DNA with the bible text &#8211; not so much in the sense of Collins&#8217; language of God but the sheer amount of information contained in a single cell.<br \/>\nHere is just one slide of this talk &#8211; it seems that the comparison worked quite well &#8211; in particular the fact that if you can read a text you will not necessarily understand it.<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/screenshot-3.png\" data-rel=\"key-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/screenshot-3.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"359\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1756\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 11.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had to give several lectures last week explaining lay people how genomic studies work. I finally decided to compare the human DNA with the bible text &#8211; not so much in the sense of Collins&#8217; language of God but the sheer amount of information contained in a single cell. Here is just one slide &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2008\/12\/how-to-explain-genomics-to-lay-people\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to explain genomics to lay people<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[2297,26,2296,2298],"class_list":["post-1754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics-biology","category-philosophy-of-science","tag-bible","tag-genome","tag-genomics","tag-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}