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Algorithms for Searching Among Chinese Characters Could Provide Effective...
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Making the Connections: Reconstructing Biosystems From the Outside In
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Inside the Mysterious Dark Matter of the Human Genome
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Obama Expected To Launch Massive Study Of The Human Brain
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The Drama Over Project Encode, And Why Big Science And Small Science Are...
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Humans May Have Fewer Genes Than Worms
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Should You Trust Big Pharma With Your DNA?
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A Cellular Atlas Of The Human Body
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Science Big ideas and lots of confidence, but no big announcements MIT's Kresge Auditorium, site of the conference No big announcements or publicity stunts at the first day of EmTech, which is what...
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Science Big ideas and lots of confidence, but no big announcements MIT's Kresge Auditorium, site of the conference No big announcements or publicity stunts at the first day of EmTech, which is what...
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Genetic Testing: Cheaper, Easier
Science As the cost of genome sequencing drops, questions about its role in society are becoming more pressing Just as CD players, personal computers, and HDTVs were prohibitively expensive when they...
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According to Genomic Pioneers, the Future of Genetics is the Future of Computing
Science The journal Nature today released a massive retrospective on the tenth anniversary of the Human Genome Project (officially celebrated June 26 of this year), which included… The journal Nature...
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Algorithms for Searching Among Chinese Characters Could Provide Effective...
Science As scientists decode more and more genomes, the tree of life gets pretty complicated. It makes tough work for geneticists or other researchers who want to understand which… As scientists...
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Making the Connections: Reconstructing Biosystems From the Outside In
Science The human genome was just the start In 2003, scientists with the Human Genome Project announced the completion of their 13-year effort to identify the three billion base pairs that form the...
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Inside the Mysterious Dark Matter of the Human Genome
Science When scientists sequenced the human genome a decade ago, it was somewhat like looking at a blueprint in a foreign language — everything was marked in its proper location, but… When scientists...
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Obama Expected To Launch Massive Study Of The Human Brain
Science President Obama is planning to back an exhaustive study of the human brain that could help researchers gain insight into everything from Alzheimer’s to mental illness to… President Obama is...
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The Drama Over Project Encode, And Why Big Science And Small Science Are...
Science In a novel form of peer review, a biologist has given an colorfully fiery critique of a genome research consortium. Here's why. If every new abstract read like Dan Graur's latest contribution,...
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Humans May Have Fewer Genes Than Worms
Science How many protein-coding genes does a human have? Far fewer than previously thought. Once upon a time in the 1960s, scientists thought the human genome might contain as many as 2 million genes,...
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