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Corn Field - Corn - Crops
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Gene splice helps fight crop disease, say researchers
Breitbart
| A farmer harvest his corn field with a reaping-machine. Biologists on Sunda... | Biologists on Sunday said they had found a potential superweapon in a long-running arms race with bacteria that threaten essential crops. | Tested in a lab, their technique entails inserting a gene kit into a plant so...
3rd Pan Arab Human Genetics Conference opened
Khaleej Times
DUBAI - Under the patronage of H.H. Shaikh 'Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum' Deputy Ruler of Dubai, UAE Minister of Finance and President of Dubai Health Authority, H.E. Dr. 'Hanif Hassan', UAE Minister of Health, Chairman-Board of Directors at Shaikh H...
Meningitis case miles from OU a genetic match to outbreak
The Columbus Dispatch
|   | The Ohio Department of Health has found a Franklin County case of bacterial meningitis that is a genetic match to the seven cases diagnosed in the past year at Ohio University. | The department tested 12 other Ohio meningitis cases from th...
Barton Childs, 93; studied inherited diseases
The Boston Globe
| NEW YORK - Dr. Barton Childs, a founder of pediatric genetics and an important contributor to the understanding of inherited diseases, died on Feb. 18. He was 93, lived in Baltimore, and taught at Johns Hopkins University for nearly 70 years until ...
Proposed DNA bill goes too far
The Oklahoman
| STATE Rep. David Derby put it pretty well this week as he argued against a bill that would require people arrested on murder or rape complaints to provide a DNA sample. "I thought we had innocent until proven guilty in the United States," said Derb...
Children - Brothers - Genes
WN / Dominic Canoy
Personal look at genes locates disease causes
The Guardian
| RANDOLPH E. SCHMID | AP Science Writer= WASHINGTON (AP) — Children inherit about 30 mutated genes from each parent, fewer than had been thought, but enough in at least one case...
Operator at microscope
Public Domain / MgCastellano
"Personal" study shows gene maps can spot disease
Zeenews
Washington: Two studies published on Wednesday show it is possible to sequence the entire gene maps of families with inherited diseases and pinpoint the offending bit of DNA. | The...
**ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS, OCT. 25-26** Theresa Gratsch, a Ph.D. research specialist, views nerve cells derived from human embryonic stem cells under a microscope at the University of Michigan Center for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor, Mich., Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2008.
AP / Paul Sancya
Genetic researchers share $500,000 prize for medicine and biomedical research
Breitbart
Valerie Bauman, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ALBANY, N.Y. - Three American scientists who contributed to the mapping of the human genetic blueprint - an advance that continues to give the ...
 A mother and daughter, left, check on the status of her dad and the child´s grandfather -- one of six trapped coal miners in the Crandall Canyon Mine -- at the senior center Monday, Aug. 6, 2007, in Huntington, Utah. (gm1)
AP/Douglas C. Pizac
Individual, family gene studies help locate causes of inherited diseases
Star Tribune
| WASHINGTON - Children inherit about 30 mutated genes from each parent, fewer than had been thought, but enough in at least one case to pass on inherited illnesses, according to a...
Cigarette - Smoke - Smoking - Smoker
WN / Yolanda Leyba
Genetic variant raises lung cancer risk for light smokers
Newstrack India
| Washington, March 10 (ANI): Individuals who carry a particular genetic variant are at much higher risk of developing lung cancer from exposure to second-hand smoke than others, e...
Herpes Virus
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Herpes Virus Can Integrate its DNA into Human Chromosomes
redOrbit
Posted on: Monday, 8 March 2010, 15:05 CST | Virologists surprised to discover that a common herpesvirus hidden in chromosomes of some people can be reactivated to infectious form ...
Obesity - Food
WN / Yolanda
Diet Not Working? Blame Your Genes
KDVR
If your diet is not working, it could be your genes. That's the pitch behind a new test that claims to show whether people will do better on a low-fat or a low-carbohydrate weight ...
Food - Viand - Diet
WN / sweet
Gene site linked to food allergy identified
Indian Express
| Scientists have discovered the first major gene location responsible for a severe, often painful type of food allergy called eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE). | In this disease, wh...
Microphotograph of HE stained section of human brain tissue upon acute ischemic stroke. Orgininal magnification 400x
GFDL / Martin Hasselblatt MD
Around five genes behind stroke identified: study
Indian Express
| Stroke has made it to the Gene Risk Profiling procedure with the identification of the genes responsible for it by the researchers of Imperial College, London. | Though it was kn...
Dengue
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New genetic control tools to combat dengue and chikungunya
DNA India
| Ahmedabad: With the invention of new genetic tools, the financial burden caused by the likes of dengue and chikungunya can substantially be reduced in the country, a study releas...
Foods - Diet - Eating
WN / Yolanda Leyba
Soon, genetic make-up to decide your diet
Newstrack India
| Washington, March 6 (ANI): Kansas State University researchers say diets could soon be tailored for people according to their genetic makeup.  | According to the scientists,...
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Sleep - Rest 'Biological clock' key to longer life
Newstrack India
| Washington, Mar 2 (ANI): A not-so-good night's sleep could reduce your ability to handle oxidative stress, cause impacts to your health, speed aging... (photo: WN / sweet)
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Obesity 75 per cent of UAE population is overweight
Gulf News
| Abu Dhabi: Approximately 75 per cent of people in the UAE are obese or overweight, and Emirati adults who are overweight or obese make up 34 per cen... (photo: WN / Yolanda Leyba)
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From left to right, the structures of A, B and Z DNA When DNA means do not ask
The Times
| Last Thursday the Oscar-nominated actress Glenn Close became the first publicly named female - and first celebrity - to have her DNA fully sequenced... (photo: GFDL / Richard Wheeler)
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U.S. President Barack Obama, left, and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak participate in a bilateral meeting at the Qubba Palace in Cairo, Thursday, June 4, 2009.  Mubarak is improving after surgery
Independent online
| Berlin - The health of Egypt's president is improving following gallbladder surgery last week, a spokesperson for the German hospital where he is re... (photo: AP / Gerald Herbert)
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