Ask HN: How to get into genetics/biology being over 30?
Hi,
I can relate to your feelings.
I am 65, when I retired as a telecom R&amp;D engineer I wanted to learn biology so I took a lot of Coursera courses and a few Edx.<p>I did a specialization in system biology. System biology is especially interesting for engineers as it tends to use the same point of view as do engineers.<p>Then I went to my local university to have master courses in bioinformatics.
Then it happened that a guy in my step family got ALS (Lou&#x27;s Gehrig disease). It was the second person to have it so I started to focus on familial ALS for obvious reasons.<p>I have a blog with ~500 posts on neurodegenerative diseases and in 2019 I wrote a book on the state of ALS research that I keep updated every 6 months.