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    Posted by Jeff Perkel
    [Entry posted at 25th April 2006 04:21 PM GMT]
    A nifty paper in yesterday's online edition of PNAS could presage the future of microfluidics development -- not to mention of sequencing technology. Richard Mathies of the University of California, Berkeley, and colleagues report the development of an integrated chip capable of performing the complete Sanger sequencing protocol, from template to gel.

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    NewsBlog:
    Posted by Jeff Perkel
    [Entry posted at 20th April 2006 07:51 PM GMT]
    Since my colleague Brendan Maher returned from a chromatin meeting in January, it seems there's been a burst of activity in the epigenetics field, much of it covered here in The Scientist. On March 17, for instance, I reported on the publication of three papers in Genes & Development, which mapped the binding of the Dosage Compensation Complex (DCC) across the Drosophila X chromosome during fly development.

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