Updates — MyGeneLog™

A human silhouette made of unchanging DNA next to the same silhouette made of fast-food packaging, visibly bigger

Does Junk Food Make You Thicc? We Checked the Genetics.

Someone asked an AI chatbot if eating processed food makes specific body parts bigger. The honest answer is more interesting than yes or no — it's a story about which part of your body actually listens to your genes, and which part has been listening to something else entirely for the last 45 years.

Sep 23, 2026 7 76

A dark card reading "the gene has been known since 1993. there is still no treatment." — the cover for an article on why incurable genetic diseases are absent from a common-variant catalogue.

Why This Site Has Almost Nothing on Huntington's, ALS or Cystic Fibrosis

Of 660 variants here, Huntington’s has zero, ALS has zero, and cystic fibrosis has one that is not even the gene. That is structural, not laziness — and the reason leads somewhere better than an apology: the study that could not ask who gets Huntington’s asked when instead, and found a target nobody expected.

Updated Sep 8, 2026 8 62

A dark card reading "a healthy person, a normal result, and a range built on somebody else." — the cover for a free classroom lesson on population data and whether a genetic finding transfers.

Lesson: when genetic findings don't apply to other populations

A free lesson on reading data critically, using this site as the dataset. The class computes the same prediction in five populations and measures how wrong it gets — six points for one variant, fifty-two for another. Then we publish our own audit: 72.2% of the variants here were discovered in entirely European samples.

Updated Sep 8, 2026 7 67

A dark card reading "one broken copy of two. you keep six per cent." — the cover for a free classroom chemistry lesson on multi-subunit enzymes and dominance.

Lesson: why one broken gene copy costs 94% of an enzyme

A free chemistry lesson with one coin per student. Ask a class what one broken copy of a gene out of two costs you and they will say half. For this enzyme the answer is 94%, the class can compute it in twelve minutes, and the reason is the shape of the protein rather than anything in the DNA.

Updated Sep 8, 2026 8 59