LINDA WITH HER GREAT NEPHEWS
Nothing to do with the blog.
I just liked the picture
For lack of other time-destroying activities, recently I have
been fooling around with genealogy, largely through the agency of 23andMe, a
DNA outfit. I had hoped to find
interesting or useful family members; Bill Gates, say, or maybe Bernie
Sanders. So far, no luck, but it’s been
fun.
However, through a Google accident I just ran on somebody I
REALLY wish was on my family tree (see below).
If you have followed my ovarian cancer blog you might recall
several occasions when I cynically referred to a “normal” progression of biomedical research: make a discovery,
set up a company to exploit it, sell out to Big Pharma, buy a Lamborghini. Well, that surely doesn’t apply to Dr. Nicola
Curtin. Dr. Curtin – I wish you were at
least my 2nd cousin!
By the way – if ambient affairs, local, national, global are
getting just too depressing – click on this:
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