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• Decoding Annie Parker: film about the BRCA hunt

  
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  I didn’t know that this film was even in the works. I know there’s controversy over the patents, but you have to acknowledge that the underlying science was really important. And I’m rather pleased to see a woman scientist in film. Looking forward to seeing it somewhere. Here’s the film website: ...
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• Natural GMOs Part 163. The Lurker: How A Virus Hid In Our Genome For Six Million Years

  
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  Carl Zimmer working skilfully at his craft of telling a compelling science story: ...HIV belongs to a class of viruses called retroviruses. They all share three genes in common. One, called gag, gives rise to the inner shell where the virus’s genes are stored. Another, called env, makes knobs on the outer surface ...
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• Plug and Play Admits 8 San Diego Companies to Startup Camp

  
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  Bruce V. Bigelow Eight seed-stage tech companies were selected late yesterday to be the first class of startups from San Diego to be admitted to the 10-week business technology accelerator program established by Silicon Valley’s Plug and Play Tech Center. Every company admitted to the Plug and Play Startup Camp ...
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• Deleterious mutational load and recent population history (Simons et al. 2013)

  
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  arXiv:1305.2061 [q-bio.PE] The deleterious mutation load is insensitive to recent population history Yuval B. Simons, Michael C. Turchin, Jonathan K. Pritchard, Guy Sella(Submitted on 9 May 2013) Human populations have undergone dramatic changes in population size in the past 100,000 years, including a severe ...
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• Genomics and Privacy at the Crossroads

  
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  Two weeks ago, I had the privilege to attend the 2013 Genomes,Environmentsand Traits conference in Boston, as a participant of Harvard Medical School’s Personal Genome Project. Several hundreds of us attended the conference, eager to learn what new breakthroughs might …
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• Europeans share common ancestors to differing extents

  
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  Don’t forget the deep structure in Italy! Credit: Rita Molnar Standard apologies that I have had not the marginal time to blog much, but I thought it was important that I least note that Dr. Peter Ralph and Dr. Graham Coop’s paper on identity-by-descent segments and European populations and history is out ...
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• Nimbus, Shire Partner on Rare Genetic Disease Drug Discovery

  
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  (James. J. Caras, National Science Foundation) Nimbus Discovery , a biotechnology company in Cambridge, Massachusetts will discover and develop new small-molecule drug candidates to treat a set of rare genetic disorders, for the specialty pharmaceutical company Shire plc based in Ireland. Under the deal, Shire ...
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• Deep history and the robot future

  
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                         I reviewed four new science books for The New York Times . They span millions of years, beginning with the birth of humanity and ending with a serious look at AI. 
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• Please help me increase my knowledge of genomics from 0% to maybe 60%!

  
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  I just got offered a job that starts later in the year where I will need to have a working knowledge of genomics, but not necessarily a specialist level. I will need to be able to discuss it with people that ARE the specialists, but not actually do the work itself.I have absolutely no grounding in genomics at all. ...
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• Online courses of possible interest

  
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  The first three are currently in progress, but I believe you can still sign up and watch the lectures. Genes and the Human Condition (From Behavior to Biotechnology) Tammatha OBrien, Raymond J. St. Leger Useful Genetics Rosemary Redfield Introduction to Biology - The Secret of Life Eric Lander ...
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• Extracting and Purifying Human DNA in Under Three Minutes

  
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  University of Washington engineers and NanoFacture, a Bellevue, Wash., company, have created a device that can extract human DNA from fluid samples in a simpler, more efficient and environmentally friendly way than conventional methods. Conventional methods use a centrifuge to spin and separate DNA molecules or ...
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• The Dark Side of Technology

  
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  Even as technology opens up new worlds, it closes doors to old ones. We should choose thoughtfully and carefully.Related posts:Some Hard Truths For MillennialsThe Scary Truth About PrivacyThe 5... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Maternal-fetal health and natural selection

  
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  Credit: USDA A few years back I was rather fixated on issues of maternal fetal health. In particular I was worried about gestational diabetes in relation to my wife because I come from an ethnic group with an elevated risk for these sorts of problems, and the effect when you are in mixed-race marriages seems to ...
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• Biotech, Sloan-Kettering Partner on Blood Cancer Test

  
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  (Genome.gov) Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York and biotechnology company Foundation Medicine are developing a new test to diagnose blood-related cancers and connect patients to the best treatment options. Foundation Medicine plans to commercialize the test and bring it to market by the end of ...
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• DNA Sequencing Lab-On-A-Chip Opens The Door To Personalized Medicine

  
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  Personalized Medicine  The Belgian research agency, IMEC, along with Panasonic have developed a DNA testing chip delivers results in one hour, paving the way for personalized drug treatments in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Comprehend, GNS reach milestones with software for drug researchers

  
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  Comprehend Systems and GNS Healthcare made progress with very different software tools for drug researchers. Yet both companies have lived up to FierceBiotech IT s choice to include them in an October 2011 report on tech companies to watch in the biotech arena.
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• Synthetic Biology Census Shows Company Growth, Consolidation

  
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  (Wikimedia Commons) A census of organizations, agencies, and companies involved in synthetic biology shows rapid growth of the field in the past four years, but also some retrenchment, particularly in the private sector. The study was conducted by the Synthetic Biology Project , an initiative of Woodrow Wilson ...
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• Beyster Fellow Selection and Venter Institute Gift

  
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  I would like to congratulate University of Michigan College of Engineering student Katherine Sebeck on her selection as a 2013-2014 fellow for the J. Robert Beyster Computational Innovation Graduate Fellows Program. During her time as a fellow, it is my understanding that Katherine will pursue computational ...
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• Video Tip of the Week: My Cancer Genome

  
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  There are a lot of cancer database resources out there. Most of the ones we’ve focused on have been the data repository types. TCGA , ICGC , CaBIG , COSMIC , Cancer Genome Workbench , UCSC Cancer Genomic Browser , and of course big repositories like GEO . Researchers will need these sources of data to locate ...
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• Sanofi teams with Big Data outfit to research drugs for diabetes and cancer

  
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  Sanofi research czar Elias Zerhouni has pushed for the company to delve deeply into the study of diseases before leaping into drug development. Now the French drug giant plans to collaborate with the software company NextBio to infuse patients genomic and other data into its work on treatments for such diseases as ...
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