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NIST's Call for Advice on Personalized Medicine Topped Most-Read GenomeWeb Daily News Articles Last Week

Jan 05, 2009
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) - What are GenomeWeb Daily News subscribers reading? Below are the five most-read articles for the five-day period ended Friday, Jan. 2.
 
1. NIST Calls Personalized Medicine a 'Critical National Need,' Seeks Advice for New Funding Programs (from Jan. 2)
 
2. Mixed Bag for Life Science Tool Stocks in December (from Jan. 2)
 
3. Helicos to Pay Down $10M from Loan (from Dec. 30)
 
4. Thermo Fisher Buys Facility for $14M (from Jan. 2)
 
5. FDA Seeks Public Assessments of Next-Gen Sequencing, Bioinformatics Tools (from Dec. 30)
 
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Researchers Model Microbiome Dynamics in Effort to Understand Chronic Human Conditions

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New Study Highlights Role of Genetics in ADHD

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