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Most Viewed Articles on GWDN Last Week: May 14, 2012

May 14, 2012 | staff reporter

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – What were the articles that gained the most interest from GenomeWeb Daily News' readers last week? Here are the top five:

1) 23andMe Eliminates Subscription Model
2) Thermo Fisher Eliminating 230 Jobs
3) Ariosa, LabCorp Partner to Make T21 Test Available
4) Complete Genomics' Q1 Revenues Drop 43 Percent
5) Beckman Coulter Receives CLIA Certification, Massachusetts Licensure for Clinical Sequencing

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International Team Proposes Checklist for Returning Genomic Research Results

Researchers in the European Journal of Human Genetics present a checklist to guide the return of genomic research results to study participants.

Study Presents New Insights Into How Cancer Cells Overcome Telomere Shortening

Researchers report in Nucleic Acids Research that ATRX-deficient cancer cells have increased activity of the alternative lengthening of telomeres pathway.

Researchers Link Telomere Length With Alzheimer's Disease

Within UK Biobank participants, longer leukocyte telomere length is associated with a reduced risk of dementia, according to a new study in PLOS One.

Nucleotide Base Detected on Near-Earth Asteroid

Among other intriguing compounds, researchers find the nucleotide uracil, a component of RNA sequences, in samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu, as they report in Nature Communications.