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Blood Counts Are Clues To Human Disease

Monday, October 12th, 2009 - 19:37:33 - Ehud Rattner

A new genome-wide association study published October 11 in Nature Genetics begins to uncover the basis of genetic variations in eight blood...

The Human Genome in 3-D

Saturday, October 10th, 2009 - 14:18:55 - Anuradha Menon

Unfurled, the human genome would contain approximately six feet of DNA. Amazingly, all of that length is packed into a cell nucleus about three...

Indian Ancestry Revealed

Thursday, September 24th, 2009 - 09:13:35 - Anuradha Menon

The population of India was founded on two ancient groups that are as genetically distinct from each other as they are from other Asians, according...

The DNA Instruction Manual
Monday, September 7th, 2009 - Anuradha Menon
Code for Life: Beginning more than three and a half billion years ago, a tiny, primitive molecule encoded instructions deep...

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A Step Forward for Microbial Machines

Saturday, August 22nd, 2009 - 16:18:08 - Anuradha Menon

In a deft act of genomic manipulation, researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute, in Rockville, MD, transplanted a bacterial genome into yeast...

Big Oil Turns to Algae

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 - 10:35:08 - Anuradha Menon

Two of Craig Venter's recent passions have been combing the Earth for microbes and other minute critters that reveal the diversity of life, and...

Sequencing Unlocks Secret of Blood Parasites

Thursday, July 16th, 2009 - 14:57:36 - Anuradha Menon

Researchers have sequenced the genomes of two species of flatworm that cause the tropical disease schistosomiasis, revealing potential weaknesses...

Orangutans May Be The Closest Human Relative

Thursday, June 25th, 2009 - 14:22:23 - Anuradha Menon

Orangutans, not chimpanzees, are the closest living relatives to humans, a controversial new study contends. The authors base their conclusion on a...

Genetically Modified Mice Yield Breast Milk

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009 - 18:00:31 - Anuradha Menon

An experimental farm in Russia could soon be producing human breast milk substitutes following successful milking trials on mice, scientists report...

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