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Personalized monitoring of cancer recovery

News: Major Disease Cures    February 20, 2010
Step by step the treatment of cancer becomes more personalized. The latest advance, in research from John’s Hopkins University (Baltimore, USA), uses a full-genome DNA sequence of a patient’s cancer to determine its ‘signature.’ Thereafter, in screens of blood tests, that signature – usually consisting of the more obvious chunks of rearranged DNA rather than [...]
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Corn (maize) genome sequenced

News: DNA Decoding    November 20, 2009
Sequencing of this or that animal or plant genome is becoming fairly routine; but this one – sequencing of the maize genome – is something of a milestone. Maize, or as the Yanks say ‘corn’ is one of the world’s great cash crops. Maize has been subject to selective breeding for centuries, but armed with [...]
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