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11.08.09

Hot Deal: Full DNA Analysis By Mail, Now Only $250

Tracing your lineage and assessing your disease risks just got cheaper
By Anna Maria Jakubek Posted 07.15.2009 at 3:03 pm 4 Comments

How It Works: Order, Spit, Mail:  Pathway Genomics
Forget that new outfit or tech toy -- next time you have some cash to burn (whenever that may be), why not get an analysis of your genes done? A startup genomics company called Pathway Genomics announced today the most affordable (and exhaustive) public DNA service on the market.

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It's A Dangerous World Out There

The threat of zombies, venomous octopuses, and pythons, and what we can learn from them
By M. Farbman Posted 04.16.2009 at 1:37 pm 1 Comment

Of the many tools available to public health officials and epidemiologists trying to understand and prevent the spread of global pandemics, one valuable resources has been ignored, until now: zombie movies.

Also in today's links: valuable measures countries take to be clean, worthless tests for predicting diseases.

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Pretty Faces and Severed Feet

And creating windy scenes the easy way
By M. Farbman Posted 11.13.2008 at 12:56 pm 0 Comments

Plus fashionable ways to find wi-fi signals, fewer chances to invest in bogus enterprises, and more, in today's links.

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