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Genetic excuse for obesity is a myth
Academics found that people could work off around 40 per cent of the extra weight that "fat genes" laid on them by exercising.Although some people... More
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Genzyme May Sell
Henri Termeer, a biotech industry pioneer and chief executive officer at Genzyme Corp., is on the verge of losing control of the company he transfo... More
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New Rules for Biotech Sugar Beets Promised
The U.S. Agriculture Department plans to have interim rules governing genetically modified sugar beets in place by the end of the year after a judg... More
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Could Open Science Resolve the Researcher-Data Producer Conflict?
GenOmics' Editors have added a video of a panel discussion about open science publishing."Last week, I wrote about the problems facing genomics and... More
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Scientific breakthrough to pave the way for new stem cell cultures
GenOmoics' Editors have added a background video on option in culturing pluripotent cells. "Currently, stem cells are cultured using animal derived... More
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HapMap 3 points the way forward for human genetics studies
New findings show the value of genetic studies across human populations and the value of the latest DNA sequencing technologies to interrogate gen... More
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Consortium Reports on HapMap 3 Findings
Members of the International HapMap 3 Consortium reported in Nature today that they have used a combination of genotyping and targeted re-sequencin... More
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Third generation map of human genetic variation published
From the NIH. GenOmics' Editors have added a video introduction to human genetic variation. "An international consortium today published a third-ge... More
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Genes Governing Embryonic Stem Cell "Immortality" Discovered
"Candace Kerr was working late on 23 August when a postdoc sent her the link to a CNN story in an e-mail entitled: "Bad news for stem cell research... More
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Evolutionary psycho-logy: Commandeering genetics to explain why Obama really is a Muslim
A controversial academic from the London School of Economics has recently penned a blog post for Psychology Today called "If Barack Obama Is Christ... More
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