Genome

Potato Genome CRACKED By International Research Team

AP | DAVID N. GOODMAN | Posted 11.28.2009 | Green


DETROIT — A global team of researchers has mapped the genetic code of the world's most popular vegetable – the potato. The draft of the p...

Daily Mail: Artificial Life Will Be Created "Within Months" As Genome Experts Claim Vital Breakthrough

The Daily Mail | Posted 09.21.2009 | Home


Artificial life will be made to order in the laboratory within four months, a controversial biologist has claimed. U.S genome expert Craig Venter, sa...

Stephen Quake, Stanford Prof, Sequences Own Entire Genome In A Week

AP | MARCUS WOHLSEN | Posted 09.10.2009 | Home


SAN FRANCISCO — It might not be long until there is a gene scanner in every doctor's office, as DNA sequencing becomes faster and cheaper. A St...

Decode Your DNA For $1,000

Wired | Thomas Goetz | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living


At the age of 65, my grandfather the manager of a leather tannery in Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, suffered a severe heart attack. He had chest pains and wa...

'Powerful New Strategy' Offers New Hope Of Linking Genes To Specific Diseases

MSNBC | Jeneen Interlandi | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Sifting through the 25,000 genes that make up the human genome to find the causes of disease may take a lot less time now, thanks to a new approach de...