Forbes.com has selected the Genetics and Public Health Blog for inclusion in their Best of the Web: Blogs That Matter (summer 2005 issue). One of eight health and fitness blogs featured, here’s an excerpt of the review,

She encourages readers to use information about their genetic makeup in a proactive way, to prevent disease, instead of deterministically, to play victim to it.

BEST: Lei stays on top of genetics in the news (”Oprah’s DNA Test”) and offers pop-quizzes (i.e. “Where is your genome located?”) as quick sources of interesting information, in mostly accessible prose.

I am so excited! They contacted me last week, but I figured it was a lost cause.

The blog will only be three months old on July 28th and there’s still a lot of room for improvement. But it looks like I will be able to surpass my goal of making 100 posts by the end of this month.

Thank you, Shai, for giving me the opportunity and the tools I needed to write about a passion I’ve had since I was in grade school.
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