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First, Aravinda Chakravarti drew a map of how scientists might unravel the genetics of complex disease. Then he blazed the trail.
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A study finds that the genomes of swine and human flu viruses associated with a county fair in Ohio are almost perfectly matched, suggesting interspecies transmission.
Scientists identify a false assumption of standard gene expression analyses that could lead to the reappraisal of many prior studies.
Swapping chromosomes from one human egg to another could eliminate mitochondrial DNA mutations that cause disease.
J. Craig Venter plans to develop a machine to find and sequence DNA on Mars, but another genomics mogul, Jonathan Rothberg, may beat him to it.
The tenderness of cancer cells squeezed by a special apparatus can help pinpoint the ones most likely to spread the disease.
Technology company Knome unveils a machine it says will "break the bottleneck" in the interpretation of human genome data.
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