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Molecular fireworks could produce thirty-minute genomes
sea-maid submitted, created time 1 month 1 week (www.newscientist.com)
The Human Genome Project completed its first draft in 2000 after ten years' work. Now a Californian company has unveiled details of a technique that it says could sequence a person's entire genome in half an hour, for under $1000.
Sequencing is the process of working out the order in which nucleotide bases appear in a strand of DNA. Until recently, this was only possible for short portions of DNA, so the most common technique involved chopping DNA into short strands, working out the sequence in each and then stitching the data together to recreate the complete genome 


The search for genome dark matter
sea-maid submitted, created time 1 month 2 weeks (www.nature.com)
An almost complete catalog of human genetic variation could be available by the end of 2009, thanks to a massive genome sequencing project that includes academic and industrial partners around the world.
The 1000 Genomes Project [sic] has already compiled about 3.8 trillion bases, and this information should be deposited in NIH's GenBank before two months have passed. However, they're not going to stop there 


DNA Sequencing Complete in Record Time!
Darkfrog submitted, created time 8 months 3 weeks (www.nature.com)
Dr. Watson, I presume? Although criticisms remain -- largely that the small fragments into which the man's genome was snipped might not have been reassembled properly -- a full genome in only four months is plenty to crow about.
Watson's genome is not the first to be sequenced. We may recall that J. Craig Venter's was as well, but Venter's project cost US$100 million and Watson's only $1.5 million.
What strikes me about this article is that it's the first time I've seen any reference to an X-Prize for sequencing 


International genome project launched
jane2007 submitted, created time 11 months 2 weeks (www.nature.com)
A much-anticipated international project to sequence the entire genomes of 1,000 people was launched on Tuesday, but some question whether the three-year project is ambitious enough in its scope. 


Letting the Genome out of the Bottle — Will We Get Our Wish?
davidd submitted, created time 11 months 3 weeks (content.nejm.org)
Genome analysis is being more affordable for us. As of November 2007, two companies have made available direct-to-consumer "personal genome services" (www.23andme.com) or "gene profiles" (www.decodeme.com) that rely on the same arrays of 500,000 to 1 million SNPs used in genomewide association studies. A third company (www.navigenics.com) has announced that it will offer similar services later this year. 


Cat genome sequenced ...sort of
Hecate submitted, created time 1 year 2 months (www.nature.com)
The opossum can move over; 60% of the cat genome has been sequenced. Although the project is incomplete, there are enough genes available for some kinds of studies. Seems a bit anticlimactic to me. 


Genome 2.0:Mountains of new data are challenging old views
wugongliang submitted, created time 1 year 4 months (www.sciencenews.org)
When scientists unveiled a draft of the human genome in early 2001, many cautioned that sequencing the genome was only the beginning. The long list of the four chemical components that make up all the strands of human DNA would not be a finished book of life, but a road map of an undiscovered country that would take decades to explore. 


A New Human Genome Sequence Paves the Way for Individualized Genomics
june submitted, created time 1 year 4 months (biology.plosjournals.org)
Just six years ago, two draft versions of the human genome were published, an achievement widely hailed as one of the most audacious scientific undertakings in history. Both of these versions are composite sequences derived from the haploid genomes—the single set of 23 chromosomes packaged into the sperm or egg of each parent—of (mostly) anonymous donors. But now, one of the principals behind the private human genome initiative has taken the next logical, albeit risky, step: sequencing his own genome. J 


Studies to find better ways to preserve human eggs, ovarian tissue under way
bioman submitted, created time 1 year 7 months (www.eurekalert.org)
The goal is to make human eggs, ovarian tissue, blood vessels, even whole organs available when needed.
To get there, researchers are directly comparing slow-freezing techniques, used successfully for decades to preserve sperm and embryos, to a more rapid method of cryopreservation that transforms tissues into durable glass-like structures. 


technology submitted, created time 1 year 7 months (www.economist.com)
"An ambitious project that promises to extend humanity's view of itself.
“NO MAN is an island,” wrote John Donne. He was thinking of the wider society of which every human being is a member, but it is also true that human bodies themselves are societies. Besides the 10 trillion human cells in a body, there are another 100 trillion bacterial cells 


Genome-wide search unearths surprising clues for diabetes and triglycerides
BIOBOSS submitted, created time 1 year 8 months (www.eurekalert.org)
Scientists from the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Lund University and Novartis today announced the discovery of three unsuspected regions of human DNA that contain clear genetic risk factors for type 2 diabetes, and another that is associated with elevated blood triglycerides. The study is among the first to apply a suite of genomic resources to clinical research, including the Human Genome Project, the SNP and HapMap Projects, and genome-scale laboratory and analytical tools. 
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