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HHMI Bulletin Nov 2010 Jennifer Michalowski	Mimicking a Fruit Fly's Natural Environment Yields Genetics Discovery The tiniest hairs on fruit fly larvae have complex genetic controls that David Stern almost missed -- until he took the fruit flies out of their cozy incubators.
Fast Company November 2009 David H. Freedman	The Gene Bubble: Why We Still Aren't Disease-Free When the human genome was first sequenced nearly a decade ago, the world lit up with talk about how new gene-specific drugs would help us cheat death. Well, the verdict is in: Keep eating those greens.
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Chemistry World June 6, 2007 Simon Hadlington	Large-Scale Gene Scanning for Common Diseases A multi-center genome scanning project that has analyzed half a million genetic markers in thousands of healthy people and people with a range of common diseases has revealed previously unknown genetic variants of the diseases.
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Bio-IT World October 2005 Dennis A. Gilbert	The DNA Sequencing Race: From Sprint to Marathon To create faster, cheaper, and better solutions for DNA analysis, we must remain committed to improving both current and new sequencing technologies. Research that just a short while ago might have been considered too complex, too expensive, or just inconceivable is now well within our grasp.
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BusinessWeek June 13, 2005 John Carey	The NIH's Roadmap for Research Charting the human genome was just the beginning. Now the focus is creating pathways that will lead to practical applications.
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Bio-IT World August 15, 2005 Kevin Davies	TGen's Discovery Pipeline in the Desert At the Translational Genomics Research Institute, researchers have developed an industrial-style informatics strategy and discovery infrastructure that has pinpointed some 25 disease genes in the past 24 months, many of which are pending identification.
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HHMI Bulletin May 2012 Sarah C. P. Williams	Stephen Quake: Innovative Thinking on Genetic Tests His ideas have already led to a blood test to tell a pregnant woman whether her fetus has Down syndrome. Now, the HHMI investigator is pushing further, to track the success of heart transplants and diagnose autoimmune diseases and allergies.
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Bio-IT World September 9, 2002 Kevin Davies	The Debate Over Race Relations Are self-identified labels of race useful in large-scale population genetic studies? A provocative commentary from a leading Stanford University geneticist has fuelled controversy.
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Technology Research News June 4, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Artificial beings evolve realistically Researchers from Michigan State University, Cal Tech, and the University of California at Los Angeles have found a way to use software to more closely mimic the way real organisms evolve, and have used the model to uncover a long-standing secret of natural selection.
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