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Keyword - Genome

- Kickstarting puberty - Premium content
  
  Genes discovered for brain pathway that triggers onset of adulthood.
  
  12 December 2008
- Human genomes in minutes? - Premium content
  
  Not yet, but biotechnology company is on track for 2013.
  
  20 November 2008
- Personal genomes: The case of the missing heritability - Premium content
  
  When scientists opened up the human genome, they expected to find the genetic components of common traits and diseases. But they were nowhere to be seen. Brendan Maher shines a light on six places where the missing loot could be stashed away.
  
  5 November 2008
- Give me my genome - Premium content
  
  Personal genome sequences could herald a shift in research participation.
  
  21 October 2008
- One is the loneliest number for mine-dwelling bacterium - Premium content
  
  Sole member of world's first single-species ecosystem depends on rocks and radioactivity for life.
  
  9 October 2008
- Gene chips unmask cryptic diseases - Premium content
  
  Microarrays zero in on small DNA defects.
  
  15 September 2008
- Lifetime lessons of DNA change - Premium content
  
  Study of how genome is chemically altered as we age could help us understand disease.
  
  24 June 2008
- Biological tools revamp disease classification - Premium content
  
  The role of gene interactions is explored.
  
  4 June 2008
- Giant bacterium carries thousands of genomes - Premium content
  
  Why does it bother?
  
  8 May 2008
- Top billing for platypus at end of evolution tree - Premium content
  
  Monotreme's genome shares features with mammals, birds and reptiles.
  
  7 May 2008