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• in Technology
  Donate Your Code! How Your Genome Can Be Open-Source
  How can your genome be part of the open-source movement? The next huge project could be humanity's source code - Linux meets the human genome.
  by tbrun1977 / on Nov 26, 2010
• in Technology
  Want to Know What Really Makes Us Human? Better Know Your SQL
  How the Internet Contains The Essence of Humanity: Open-Source Genetic Databases and SQL
  by tbrun1977 / on Sep 20, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “human genome”

 

• Human genes patent ruling: some clarity but real problem remains

  
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  US supreme court ruling against Myriad Genetics will be cheered, but the human genome has turned out to be far more complex and difficult to understand than once hoped The US supreme court decision that natural human genes cannot be patented will be greeted with huge cheers by some campaigners and researchers, and ...
  5 days ago

• The Smithsonian Opens New Genetics Exhibit

  
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  Sixty years after Crick and Watson showed us the double helix structure of DNA, the Smithsonian opens the exhibition “Genome: Unlocking Life’s Code,” showing us all how the genetic revolution continues to change our lives, our health and our understanding of the human story. The exhibition — just opened at ...
  6 days ago

• Supreme court: no, you may not copyright human genes

  
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  The Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that companies may not patent human genes. At least, not ones they haven’t made themselves. Biotech company Myriad Genetics had applied and received patents for the exact location and sequence of two genes implicated in breast and ovarian cancer, BRCA1 and ...
  6 days ago

• Supreme Court Says Human Gene Cannot Be Patented

  
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  The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled partially for Myriad Genetics Inc on the closely watched issue of whether human genes can be patented, deciding synthetically produced genetic material can be patented but naturally occurring DNA cannot. The nine justices ruled unanimously in the case. The biotechnology ...
  6 days ago

• Report: Genomics industry contributed $1 trillion to U.S. economy in last 25 years

  
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  From the inception of the Human Genome Project in 1988 until 2012, the genomics revolution has had a total impact of nearly $1 trillion on the U.S. economy, according to a new report released Wednesday.
  6 days ago

• The 7 Most Important Medical Advances of the Past Decade

  
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  Ever wonder what the most important medical advances of the past decade have been? Medicine is an ever evolving field of science, with constant breakthroughs and discoveries being made at a rapid pace. Wondering what this past decade has brought in terms of medical advances? We have compiled a list of the seven most ...
  1 week ago

• My own genome project

  
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  It is 10 years since the human genome was first sequenced. In that time the cost per person has fallen from $2.7bn to just $5,000. Revealing our full DNA will revolutionise medicine – but it will also raise huge ethical questions about what we do with the information … In the almost year-long lead-up to having my ...
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• My own genome project

  
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  It is 10 years since the human genome was first sequenced. In that time the cost per person has fallen from $2.7bn to just $5,000. Revealing our full DNA will revolutionise medicine – but it will also raise huge ethical questions about what we do with the information … In the almost year-long lead-up to having my ...
  1 week ago

• Long After the Start of the "War on Terror," a Conflict of Interest about an Anthrax Scare Comes to Light

  
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  In May, David Willman writing for the Los Angeles Times broke a story of a somewhat new variant on the conflict of interest theme, one that has not gotten a lot of attention, but should. The issue was medical, with a twist, - how to best treat a bioterror attack with anthrax engineered to be resistant to multiple ...
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• Why do identical twins end up having such different lives?

  
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  Their genes are exactly the same, so why dont identical siblings lives follow more similar patterns? The scientist behind a pioneering 21-year study believes he has the answer Barbara Oliver has had an intriguing relationship with her identical twin sister, Christine, over the decades. Throughout their childhoods, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Leave me your DNA … and Ill 3D-print your face | Eleonore Pauwels

  
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  A new ethical dilemma: is it wrong to use peoples DNA leftovers to create works of art (or for any other purpose)? Your DNA is as personal as you can get. It has information about you, your family and your future. Now, imagine it is used – without your consent – to create a mask of your face. Working with the DNA ...
  2 weeks ago

• Video: “Breathprints” Unique as Fingerprints, Testable for Disease

  
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  A new study says the contents of a person’s breath are unique and change slowly, if at all — possibly leading to new, non-invasive diagnostic tools. via: div#grabpreview {display:none !important;}
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• VIDEO: Question Bowl: Francis Collins

  
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  Post at TOBIASRENFROE.COM The National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins answers queries pulled at random from the Question Bowl. ...
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• Bladderwort Study Adds To The Debate On “Junk” DNA

  
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  [Source: University of Buffalo] Only about two percent of the human genome contains genes. The other 98 percent has been likened to cosmology’s dark matter that fills the space between stars – there’s a lot of it, but nobody really knows what it does. Over the years scientists have put faith into the logic of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Pines, humans, genome…

  
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  Deciphering the genome of the loblolly pine is a tall order, as is perhaps fitting for a tree that can grow to be 30 meters in height. Researchers sequenced the conifer’s ( Pinus taeda ) approximately 24 billion bases of DNA, Steven Salzberg of Johns Hopkins University reported May 10. That surpasses the previous ...
  4 weeks ago

• France: Gay Marriage Signed into Law

  
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  Friday French President Francois Hollande signed gay marriage into law after an eleven hour appeal by the far right challenging the constitutionality of the law.  The Constitutional Council rejected the challenge and it is expected that marriages will begin before the end of the month.   It goes without saying that ...
  4 weeks ago

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