It saw the Solexa acquisition as a way to extend its expertise in human genetic research.
Crichton graphically portrays all the hideous things that can go wrong with genetic research.
Milburn noted that genetic research helps diagnose patients early and increases the use of preventive medicine.
Icelandic DNA. It is going to figure in the hundreds of millions of dollars a year that drug companies are pouring into genetic research.
Amgen and Sanofi are developing cholesterol-lowering shots called PCSK9 inhibitors, in part because the genetic research behind the drugs is so compelling.
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Michelson started focusing on an area of genetic research called RNA interference.
Scientists are on the verge of enabling us to attack diseases almost on an individual basis, thanks to molecular and genetic research breakthroughs.
Firstly the genetic research has shown clearly that some autism risk lies in the genetic code that each of us has a blueprint.
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The genetic research was supported by the US-based Wildlife Conservation Society.
"Every university that does genetic research potentially infringes their patents, " says Brent Brown of the University of Utah's technology-transfer office, which took its license in May.
The missions themselves are fun, and a mix of broad base-building exercises and more personal encounters with say, Kerrigan storming through a genetic research lab by herself.
These chemicals may speed one of the most fundamental reactions in genetic research, called polymerase chain reaction (PCR), by allowing scientists to perform it at higher temperatures.
Every year, there are more and more generic drugs, and one of the promises of new genetic research is that it might help rediscover new uses for old medicines.
After reading online about genetic research, Ms. Dewey-Hagborg joined Genspace, a New York genetics laboratory, and brought samples she found on Brooklyn streets into the lab for DNA extraction.
Gene patents are potentially even more lucrative and the challenge here is the patent protection that prevents other companies from advancing genetic research without paying a royalty or licensing fee.
Another modern-day use of mummies is genetic research.
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This week it struck a deal to license three chemicals to Invitrogen ivgn (nasdaq: ivgn - news - people), which makes products that accelerate the work of scientists doing genetic research.
In this way, it could give children a tool for understanding their own heredity, and eventually help them understand the kind of genetic research that has been pivotal to biotech companies such as Amgen and Genzyme.
"This is the first time anyone has shown that a single parkin mutation can lower the age of onset, " said Dr James Gusella, study leader and director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Human Genetic Research.
It is also that with so many sufferers being diagnosed too late for surgery, there hasn't historically been as much tissue available to researchers to carry out the kind of genetic research necessary to develop effective targeted treatments.
Ever since Watson and Crick first described DNA, genetic research was built around what was known as "the central dogma"--genes, written in the DNA, were recipes for proteins, which in turn interacted with one another to form the working guts of living organisms.
But the tactic appears to be wearing thin with both the public and increasingly with mainstream journalists who only recently have begun challenging the junk journalism that still prevails in reporting about GM crops, foods and animals, and genetic research in general, including in humans.
It includes DeCode Genetics (nasdaq: DCGN - news - people), the company that made news with its plan to use the genealogy of the people of Iceland as a tool for genetic research, and Exelixis (nasdaq: EXEL - news - people), which uses model systems like fruit flies to figure out what genes do in human beings.
"Thus, E-4 appears as a risk factor for both heart disease and Alzheimer's disease, two major causes of mortality and morbidity at advanced ages, " Francois Schachter and his colleagues at the Center for the Study of Human Polymorphisms, a genetic-research center in Paris, conclude in a report.
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The new genetic map should bolster research into a number of diseases whose onset is associated with a combination of genetic predisposition and changes to the body's roster of bacteria.
He now works at the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre at Britain's Institute of Psychiatry.
Doctors and nurses are drowning in information with new research, genetic data, treatments and procedures popping up daily.
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If current research in genetic engineering pays off, cottonseed flour will turn up in the bakery aisle in breads, cakes, and cookies.
Dr Alison Brind, consultant physician at the City General Hospital in Stoke is also heading research into genetic factors in alcohol-related liver disease.
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