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Telomerase Gene Therapy Extends Lives Of Mice By Up To 24 Percent

Scientists are doing their best to give us the gift of immortality. The latest in the fight against ever dying [...]

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Group Set To Sequence 1000 Genomes By The End Of The Year

When the Human Genome Project got underway in 1990 it was expected to take 15 years to sequence the over [...]

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Raising The Mammoth – Russian And Korean Scientists Set Out To Bring Back The Extinct Giant

South Korean and Russian scientists have agreed on a project right out of “Jurassic Park.” Maybe not as cool as [...]

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Latest Victory For Regenerative Medicine: Pituitary Grown From Embryonic Stem Cells

Chalk up another part of the body that can be grown from stem cells – at least in mice. Scientists [...]

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Report: Baby’s Sex Can Be Determined With Mother’s Blood At Seven Weeks

Want to find out if your baby is going to be a boy or a girl but aren’t sure about [...]

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Chinese Scientists Clone Cows With “Humanized” Milk

This very moment, grazing in the fields of the State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology in Beijing, China is a particular [...]

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Cutting Edge Gene Therapy Successfully Treats Parkinson’s Symptoms

Imagine that for years you’ve lived with a body that is in constant, uncontrollable, motion: your hands tremble, your head [...]

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Complete Genomics Gears Up for IPO This Week

Open up your financial umbrellas, Complete Genomics is going to make it rain. The Mountain View startup has built a [...]

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DNA Factory Plans to Open Within 6 Months

Good news for all you aspiring Craig Venters out there. Before the end of the year, synthetic biologists will have [...]

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Secret Messages Coded Into DNA Of Venter Synthetic Bacteria

Researchers at the J Craig Venter Institute recently unveiled their first self-replicating synthetic bacteria (M. mycoides JCVI-syn1.0) whose DNA was [...]

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Bio-Fab Ready to Distribute Building Blocks of Synthetic Life

The first biological design-build facility in the world announced that it will soon be able to synthesize chemicals, fuels and [...]

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US Court Strikes Down Patent on Human Genes – Huge News for Genomics

In what is sure to become a landmark case for genomics, a US District Court Judge in New York (Robert [...]

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Yale Scientists Diagnose Illness Through Genome Sequencing

A doctor has some tried and true methods of helping her diagnose a disease: examining the lymph nodes, taking your [...]

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DNA Electronics Has a Hand Held Genetic Testing Device – Interview with CEO!

If your computer and your DNA had a baby, it would be the SNP Dr. from DNA Electronics. SNP Dr. [...]

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Get Your Entire Genome From Complete Genomics For $5000

It’s getting progressively cheaper to sequence your entire genome. Earlier in June, Illumina announced it would provide sequencing for close [...]

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Archon X Prize Offers $10 million to Revolutionize Gene Sequencing

Many people have heard of the original X Prize, which was a $10 million prize given to the first company [...]

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Heliscope builds world’s fastest DNA sequencer

The Short: Technology Review reports that for just $1,350,000 USD you can have have the worlds fastest commercially available DNA [...]

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The revolution in mass market DNA analysis is happening…

I just read the following post from the 23andMe company blog. The most interesting revelation here is the demonstration of [...]

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Check Yourself for Genetic Abnormalities Wiki

Wired just setup a how-to wiki describing how to check yourself for genetic abnormalities. The wiki is pretty wimpy on [...]

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