“Live long? Die young? Answer isn't just in genes” 
(Aug 31) International Herald Tribune reports, “Josephine Tesauro never thought she would live so long.”
“China builds biggest gene bank of all 54 ethnic minorities”
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(Aug 31) 4 ethnic minorities, the state media reported today.”
“Covert DNA analysis to be illegal in UK”
(Aug 30) English Peoples Daily Online reports, “Covertly analyzing someone's DNA will be illegal from Friday next week in the United Kingdom on the recommendation of the Human Genetics Commission (HGC) to the UK government, New Scientist reported on its website on Tuesday.”
“Brave New World of Genes and Bytes”
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(Aug 29) OhmyNews reports, “We all know Craig Venter: 50-something 24-carat genius who after years of extraordinary research and teaching at the prestigious National Institutes of Health founded The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) in 1992 and with the talent he assembled there became the first to decode the genome of a free-living organism -- a disease-causing bacterium.”
“Hopkins Develops Online Tool To Aid Research On Certain 'Orphan Diseases'”
(Aug 29) Bioresearch Online reports, “Many people are afflicted with rare illnesses of unknown cause, and finding a common link to such under-studied or "orphaned" diseases as Bardet-Biedl, Alstrom and Meckel-Gruber syndromes can significantly advance the search for causes and treatment.”
“Older twins to shed light on ageing”
(Aug 29) ninemsn reports, “An Australian study involving 300 sets of older twins is expected to reveal new genes which control how humans age.”
“Genome Institute Turns To Sun's Opteron Servers To Get Gene-Sequencing Done”
(Aug 28) Yahoo News reports, “Sun Microsystems has succeeded in displacing aging H-P Alpha servers with its Opteron-based line of servers in what is an acknowledged, compute-intensive environment—The Institute for Genomic Research.”
“Gene Variations May Increase Stroke Risk For Younger Women”
(Aug 28) Science Daily reports, “University of Maryland researchers have shown a strong association between specific genetic variations and an increased risk of stroke in younger women, adding to the growing evidence of possible genetic influences in stroke.”
“Age-Linked Vision Loss May Depend on Genes”
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(Aug 28) CBC News reports, “Genetics plays a big role in age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of vision loss in older adults, two new studies show.”
“University of Pittsburgh named Parkinson Disease Center for Advanced Research”
(Aug 28) EurekAlert! reports, “The University of Pittsburgh has been named an American Parkinson Disease Association (APDA) Advanced Center for Parkinson's Disease Research, a designation that places it in an elite group with eight other leading institutions in the United States.”
“Gene for age-related hearing loss”
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(Aug 28) tehrantimes.com reports, “Hearing loss in the elderly has been linked to flaws in a specific gene in a study by Dutch researchers.”
“NUH team discovers how gene affects drug dosage”
(Aug 28) Channel News Asia reports, “Singapore doctors have solved the puzzle of why Indian, Chinese and Malay patients need different dosages of the commonly-used anti-clotting drug - warfarin - to achieve the same effect, raising the possibility that medicine, in the future, could be prescribed based on ethnicity.”
“Gene-on-gene interactions may influence risk for developing alcoholism”
(Aug 27) EurekAlert! reports, “One variant of the alcohol dehydrogenase gene can influence alcohol response among some Caucasians.”
“Understanding Genetic Disorders”
(Aug 25) Health Scout reports, “You may not have ever heard of Marfan syndrome, Ehlers-Danlos or Loeys-Dietz syndrome. Not many physicians have the chance to regularly work with these extremely rare genetic conditions.”
“NIH unprecedented genetic study may help identify people most at risk for alcoholism”
(Aug 25) EurekAlert! reports, “Scan of human genome may provide important new tools for prevention and treatment.”
“Gene variants reveal susceptibility to cardiovascular disease”
(Aug 24) EurekAlert! reports, “Variations in a gene that acts as a switch to turn on other genes may predispose individuals to heart disease, an international team of researchers led by Duke University Medical Center scientists has discovered.”
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