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A Good YEar

Jan 13, 2010

Discover magazine released its top 100 stories of 2009, on which the Myriad Genetics gene patenting case comes in at #52. Other stories of interest: a retrovirus that hits the human genome and may cause chronic fatigue syndrome; inserting the human FOXP2 gene into mice; and Reza Ghadiri's work with tPNA and its implications in RNA studies.

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