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  • June 2008

    • Quest on for Chocolate Genome

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Jun 26, 08 6:44 AM CDT

      Quest on for Chocolate Genome

      Candy giant Mars is investing $10 million in a 5-year research project to unlock the secrets of chocolate's genetic code—the cocoa genome—as the first stage in developing cacao trees that can produce more, survive droughts, and combat disease. Mars intends to make the results public to stop key genes from being privately patented, reports the Washington Post. The cocoa harvest has become volatile and unreliable in recent years. More »

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      Brazil  • Mars  • IBM  • drought  • chocolate  • genome  • Department of Agriculture  • West Africa

    • Genes ID Best Patients for Colon Cancer Drug

      newser  |  Reuters  |  Jun 2, 08 2:46 AM CDT

      Genes ID Best Patients for Colon Cancer Drug

      Researchers have taken a giant step toward the "holy grail" of personalized cancer treatment—by using genetic profiling to accurately target chemotherapy, Reuters reports. A new genetic test of colon cancer tumors is able to predict with accuracy whether a patient will respond to treatment with the drug Erbitux, which blocks tumor growth.    More »

  • May 2008

    • Here's Why Platypus Look So Goofy

      newser  |  National Geographic  |  May 7, 08 7:00 PM CDT

      Here's Why Platypus Look So Goofy

      Scientists have decoded the genome of the duck-billed platypus, National Geographic reports, with their findings as interesting as they expected. Research, published in Nature , confirms that the platypus is the earliest living offshoot of mammalian evolution, yet retains many genetic throwbacks to reptilian ancestors thought to have lived 300 million years ago. More »

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      evolution  • genome  • reptiles  • mammals

  • November 2007

    • Cat Out of the Bag: Kitty's DNA Decoded

      newser  |  BBC  |  Nov 2, 07 6:12 AM CDT

      Cat Out of the Bag: Kitty's DNA Decoded

      A 4-year-old Abyssinian cat named Cinnamon has become the first of her species to have its DNA sequenced, the BBC reports. Cats now join dogs, chimps, rats, mice, cows and people as mammals with decoded genomes. Cinnamon’s sequence could shed light on hundreds of human illnesses; cats can suffer from hereditary blindness and a feline version of HIV. More »

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      DNA  • AIDS  • cat  • blindness  • genome

  • August 2007
  • July 2007

    • New Genetic Ties to MS Found

      newser  |  Reuters  |  Jul 29, 07 6:04 PM CDT

      New Genetic Ties to MS Found

      Scientists have pinpointed two genes that may be linked to MS, signaling a breakthrough in the fight against the debilitating disease 20 years in the making. In separate studies published today by two medical journals, researchers revealed one specific gene receptor may trigger cells to inhibit the body's autoimmune reaction, the first ever genetic culprit in the crippling disorder. More »

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      health  • science  • disease  • genetics  • medical breakthrough  • genes  • immune system  • genome  • multiple sclerosis

  • June 2007

    • Early Immunity to Chimp Virus Leaves Humans Open to HIV

      newser  |  Scientific American  |  Jun 22, 07 10:36 AM CDT

      Early Immunity to Chimp Virus Leaves Humans Open to HIV

      Humans are more susceptible to HIV than other primates because our ancestors evolved a protein that could fight off a different retrovirus that infected chimps, says Scientific American . The most conspicuous difference between the chimpanzee genome sequenced in 2005 and the human one, says a Seattle virologist, was 130 copies of a retrovirus that inserted its DNA into cells, as HIV does today. More »

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      health  • DNA  • disease  • genetics  • AIDS  • evolution  • HIV  • chimpanzees  • genome

    • Dog Breeders Deploy DNA Tests

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jun 12, 07 8:11 AM CDT

      Dog Breeders Deploy DNA Tests

      With the first map of a dog genome recently completed, scientists are hot on the trail of  genes for individual canine traits from coat color to cocking their heads in a cutesy way—and dog breeders are right behind them. Without any of the inhibitions attached to eugenics in humans, they're snapping up genetic tests to improve their breeds. More »

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      dog  • genetics  • genome  • breeding  • genetic screening

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