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DNA Day 2012 activities at Miami Science Museum

DNA Day 2012 activities at Miami Science Museum
April 19, 2012
biotech

DNA Day 2012 is almost here! The John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics at the University of Miami Miller …Read the Rest

3 studies seem to reveal genetic link to autism

April 7, 2012
biotech

De novo mutations revealed by whole-exome sequencing are strongly associated with autism Sporadic autism exomes reveal a highly interconnected protein …Read the Rest

Gene that increases lifespan of mice identified

February 26, 2012
biotech

A team led by Dr. Haim Cohen, of Bar-Ilan University’s Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, and including …Read the Rest

UF tests gene therapy for epilepsy to prevent seizures

February 16, 2012
biotech

Sparking production of a hormone in the brain that people with epilepsy often lack could prevent debilitating seizures, University of Florida …Read the Rest

Trying to fit a round therapy in a square business model?

January 25, 2012
biotech

The technical feasibility of gene therapy “has been established in multiple diseases and with different technology platforms,” says Dr. James …Read the Rest

How to cut and paste the A-C-G-T of living bacteria

July 15, 2011
biotech

The power to edit genes is as revolutionary, useful and powerful as was Gutenberg’s first printing press. And like Gutenberg’s …Read the Rest


Researchers discover ‘master switch’ gene for obesity, diabetes

May 15, 2011
biotech

A team of researchers, led by King’s College London and the University of Oxford, have found that a gene linked …Read the Rest


What if the DOD sequenced every soldier’s genome?

January 14, 2011
biotech

Rapid advances in DNA sequencing and other technologies are ushering in an era of personal genomics. Soon it will be possible …Read the Rest


Genetic sequencing identifies unknown disease, saves a life

January 6, 2011
biotech

At the age of 3, Nicholas Volker of Monona, Wisconsin, had already endured more than 100 surgeries, but was progressively …Read the Rest


Phylo – A Human Computing Framework for Comparative Genomics

December 3, 2010
biotech

Phylo is a crowdsourced gene sequence comparison and alignment game from McGill University. http://phylo.cs.mcgill.ca/