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Dec 29, 2006
May I Have My Barcode Now?
Genetics and Health blogger prepares for the inevitable after the latest news out of Britain's National DNA Database.
Dec 29, 2006
Getting to Know the Gibbon
In the superfamily tree, gibbons are among the more highly diverged species from humans. A PLoS Genetics paper says synteny breakpoints may well have been the fork in the road.
Dec 29, 2006
Tastes Like Chicken
The US FDA finds no difference between meat from regular livestock and cloned livestock, and proposed greenlighting sales of cloned products without special labeling for consumers.
Dec 29, 2006
Sirna Shareholders OK Merck Acquisition; Firm Alters Closing Expectation Date
NEWSBRIEF
Dec 28, 2006
RNA Rules, Dude
A blogger waxes poetic over the accomplishment of that less-celebrated nucleic acid.
Dec 28, 2006
HGS, Fifteen Years in Review
A look back at the ups and downs of Human Genome Sciences' decade-and-a-half struggle to get a drug on the market.
Dec 28, 2006
But What Do They Cost Outside of Medicine?
Slashdot's abuzz with reaction to a Nobel laureate arguing against patents for therapeutics.
Dec 28, 2006
The Heady Times of '06
Waking up from a year-long nap? Nature ticks off the biggest scientific events of the last 12 months.
Dec 28, 2006
Southern Capitol Ventures Closes $15M Fund, Plans to Invest in Life Science Tool Shops
NEWSBRIEF
Dec 27, 2006
Hip Hop Meets Mass Spec: P Diddy's Fur Flap
In a faux fur faux pas hip hop entrepreneur Sean 'P Diddy' Combs has been undone by mass spectrometry.
Dec 27, 2006
Neuroscience vs. Free Will
Modern neuroscience is eroding the idea of free will, says The Economist.
Dec 27, 2006
Genetic Diversity in South Asia? Not So Much
The first extensive investigation of Indian genetic diversity and population relationships samples 15 groups of India-born immigrants to the United States, genotyping each at 1,200 genetic markers genome-wide.
Dec 27, 2006
Proteomics, 1933-Style
Analyze. Check results against database. Find out what it is. Sound familiar?
Dec 27, 2006
Bayer, BASF, Degussa, and Other German Firms Form Microbial Genome Research Consortium
NEWSBRIEF
Dec 26, 2006
Science and Politics Under the Fume Hood
No holiday break for the flow of sad news from New Jersey's spectacularly mismanaged UMDNJ research hospital. Among the latest, a brand new $110 million cancer center sitting almost empty for lack of operating funds.
Dec 26, 2006
Resolution: More Time to Blog in 2007
A computational biology blogger joins the ranks of the unemployed - but still finds time to ponder the genomics of organelles and endosymbionts.