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11.22.09

Decoded Corn Genome Promises Higher Yields, Better Biofuels, New Plastics

By Stuart Fox Posted 11.19.2009 at 5:16 pm 2 Comments

With its annual output of over 330 million tons a year feeding animals, running cars, and decorating South Dakota tourist attractions, maize is clearly Americas most important crop. That's why the newly published complete corn genome could drastically change the food, automotive and plastic industries.

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IBM Creates DNA-Sequencing Microchips In Race To The $1000 Genome

By Stuart Fox Posted 10.06.2009 at 12:52 pm 0 Comments

Like many other aspects of health care, the implementation of personal genetic medicine has run aground against the costs of producing an entire genome. Even now, a decade after the completion of the Human Genome Project, commercial whole genome sequencing can cost as much as $100,000. And at that price, the sequencing just isn't worth the benefits.

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First African, Asian, and Woman Get Full Genome Map

Sequences bring individualized medicine a step closer

By Laura Allen Posted 11.10.2008 at 12:38 pm 5 Comments

Geneticists announced last week in the journal Nature that they have sequenced the complete set of DNA for three people—a Nigerian man, a Chinese man, and a Caucasian woman with leukemia—bringing the total number of individual genomes sequenced and published to five. (The first two are those of the genetics pioneers J. Craig Venter and James Watson.)

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