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May 27, 2009

From products that say they will give you younger-looking skin to genome sequencing, scientists are worried about a backlash from consumers, reports the Boston Globe. "Some of these companies have cribbed from our sheets about where we hope to be going, and they've turned that into their business plans for where we are now," says Harvard Medical School's Isaac Kohane. NHGRI's Gregory Feero adds that "there's likely to be this sort of let-down about how useful this information is in the near term."

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The Scan

For Those Thick Tiger Stripes

Tigers in India with thick stripes harbor a genetic change, as Gizmodo reports.

High GABA Tomatoes

The Japan News reports that genome-edited tomatoes with higher GABA levels are now for sale in Japan.

Approach for Inclusivity and Diversity

A National Human Genome Research Institute team calls for the field to "adopt diversity as an ethos."

Science Papers on Tumors Immune System Evasion; Drivers of Genomic Instability, Inflammation

In Science this week: study of how tumors evade the adaptive immune system, and more.