A new study reveals how human genes interact with their environment to boost disease risk. The findings shed light on why the search for specific gene variants linked to human diseases can only partly explain common disorders.
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| knowtex.com | | the 20/02/2010 |  | Add or View Comment |
Synthetic biology goes beyond classic genetic engineering as it attempts to engineer living systems to perform new functions not found in nature. Ten years ago this week, Nature published a pair of seminal papers that stimulated 'systems biology' thinking[...]
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| nature.com | | the 17/02/2010 |  | Add or View Comment |
The first thing to understand about the new science of synthetic biology is that it’s not really a new science; it’s a brazen call to conduct an existing one much more ambitiously.
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| nytimes.com | | the 15/02/2010 |  | Add or View Comment |
Universal DNA reader will advance faster, cheaper sequencing efforts.
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| sciencedaily.com | | the 15/02/2010 |  | Add or View Comment |
Craig Venter avait fait scandale en 2001, lorsqu’il avait fait part de son intention de déposer un brevet sur le génome humain (voir l’autre texte). Il avait renoncé. En 2006, l’Institut Craig Venter a déposé un brevet sur un ensemble de[...]
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| sciencepresse.qc.ca | | the 05/01/2010 |  | Add or View Comment |
Waiting for Synthia - that has been the script for enthusiasts of synthetic life for the past two years, ever since genomics pioneer Craig Venter promised to unveil a living bacterial cell carrying a genome made from scratch in the lab. 2010 is[...]
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| newscientist.com | | the 05/01/2010 |  | Add or View Comment |
Au plan scientifique, certains y voient un tournant majeur, d’autres une continuité. Une chose est sûre, l’émergence du nanomonde amorce une nouvelle révolution technologique, dont les impacts vont influencer largement la société... Au même[...]
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| cnrs.fr | | the 08/12/2009 |  | Add or View Comment |
A très petite échelle, des propriétés physiques apparaissent, d’autres
disparaissent. Certaines sont améliorées ou perturbées : la légèreté,
la résistance, la conductivité, la thermie, l’adhérence, le magnétisme
ou même encore l’esthétisme…[...]
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| cnrs.fr | | the 08/12/2009 |  | Add or View Comment |
Three subjects with a rare form of visual impairment found their sight still better a year after gene therapy, and their immune systems seemed happy with the treatment.
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| scientificamerican.com | | the 01/12/2009 |  | Add or View Comment |
Définition, Les raisons de l'inquiétude, science-fiction, débat public,
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| reflexiences.com | | the 01/12/2009 |  | 2 Comments |