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Alzheimer’s drug puts journalists’ judgment to test

How did the media do in covering news that a new drug appeared to halt the progression of Alzheimer’s disease for up to three years – a result never achieved before – but only in a handful of patients...? Alzheimer’s drug puts journalists’ judgment to test, published on the blog of Association of healthcare journalists - Jul. 19th, 2012 by Judith Graham [online]

 

Inbreeding's downside is not all in the genes

Epigenetic explanation for some effects of inbreeding. Online at Science NOW; written by Carrie Arnold on 10 July 2012.
The Habsburgs learned about inbreeding the hard way. Centuries of marriages between close relatives in this Austrian-Spanish royal family led to mental illness, infertility, and the eventual extinction of the entire bloodline. For more than a hundred years, scientists have chalked up such problems to rare genetic mutations, but a new study in plants suggest epigenetic mechanisms are involved too. [online]

 

100,000 pathogen genomes will lead to new and better tests

The 100K Genome Project, which aims to sequence the genomes of 100,000 infectious microorganisms, has been launched...
Published at Genome Engineering blog: July 16, 2012 by Suzanne Elvidge [online]

 

23andMe’s face in the crowdsourced health research industry gets bigger

Crowdsourced health research gets a boost by merging with personalized genomics company, 23andMe.
Nature Medicine - Spoonfull of medicine blog, July 12, 2012. [online]

 

Epigenetics III: Epigenetic control of natural genetic engineering and environmental inputs into evolutionary change

By James A. Shapiro. Huffington Post online July 18, 2012 [online]

 

Epigenetics I: Turning a DNA packaging problem into a developmental control system

By James A. Shapiro. Huffington Post online July 9, 2012 [online]

 

A life-death predictor adds to a cancer’s strain

Genetic test changes the game in cancer prognosis
By Gina Kolata
Published: July 9, 2012 in the New York Times [online]

 

Centenarians vs newborns: Epigenetic differences reveal clues to ageing

"Centenarians vs newborns: Epigenetic differences reveal clues to ageing
14 June 2012 by James Gallagher, BBC news " [online]

 

Flavor is price of Scarlet Hue of tomatoes, study finds

A gene mutation that breeders latched onto because it makes a tomato uniformly red also stifles genes that contribute to its taste, researchers say. [online]

 

Physics nobelists tell of their prize-winning discoveries

In selections from the archives of Scientific American, physicists give firsthand accounts of their groundbreaking work. By John Matson and Ferris Jabr,
June 28, 2012 [online]

 
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