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<title>Venter Versus Watson</title>
<description><![CDATA[Personalized medicine should employ precise genetic information instead of relying on race and ethnicity to prescribe drugs in the future.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:48:13 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Moisturizers Increase Skin Cancer Risk In UV-Radiation Treated Mice</title>
<description><![CDATA[everal common moisturizing creams can increase the formation of non-melanoma skin tumors when applied to UV-radiation treated mice.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:45:42 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Nature Reviews Genetics: An Ever-Evolving Review</title>
<description><![CDATA[An article highlighting new ways of using the interactive web to generate community-driven reviews of scientific knowledge will be subject to some of its own recommendations.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:23:13 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Staying Lean Without A Diet</title>
<description><![CDATA[A study published online reports a strain of mice that are lean and resistant to obesity.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:48:18 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>An Antibacterial Catapult</title>
<description><![CDATA[Scientists have discovered an immune cell that fights bacteria by throwing mitochondrial DNA in a catapult-like manner.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:43:56 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Cleaning Up The House</title>
<description><![CDATA[Boosting the activity of a cellular quality-control mechanism may prevent the functional decay associated with ageing.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:40:44 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>New Susceptibility Gene For Type 2 Diabetes</title>
<description><![CDATA[Scientists have identified variants that increase risk of type 2 diabetes in populations of both East Asian and European origin.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:34:25 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Ion Channels Implicated In Bipolar Disorder</title>
<description><![CDATA[Variants in two genes are associated with increased risk of bipolar disorder.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:29:37 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Genetic Risk Factor For Chronic Inflammatory Disorder</title>
<description><![CDATA[A genetic variant that increases risk of the chronic inflammatory disorder sarcoidosis has been identified.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:26:30 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Cancer Taking The Myc</title>
<description><![CDATA[Therapies that block the action of a gene called Myc may prove useful against cancer.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:23:20 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Key Receptor Identified For HCMV Infection</title>
<description><![CDATA[Researchers have identified a critical receptor required for human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infection.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:20:49 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Mapping and Cloning Genes - Goodbye to All That?</title>
<description><![CDATA[A paper describing the use of whole-genome deep sequencing to pinpoint mutations in the worm C. elegans is published; in principle, this approach be applicable to any model organism whose genome has been sequenced.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:47:40 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Sex in Bacteria for Genome-wide Interaction Screens</title>
<description><![CDATA[Two papers describing techniques for genome-wide genetic interaction screens in bacteria are published.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:41:10 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Pre-eclampsia May be an Autoimmune Disease</title>
<description><![CDATA[A pre-eclampsia-like syndrome can be induced in mice by giving them autoantibodies isolated from humans with the disease.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:37:47 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>A Great Warm-up Act</title>
<description><![CDATA[Promoting blood vessel growth and tissue remodelling may improve outcome in patients with muscular dystrophy.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:35:23 GMT</pubDate>
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