February 7, 2012 4:01 PM
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Ann Gibbons
Researchers in Germany today posted the first high-resolution version of an extinct human's genome on the Web site for the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. The goal: to...
February 2, 2012 1:50 PM
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The debate over whether a bacterium can incorporate arsenic into its DNA just flared up again, with the posting yesterday of a paper refuting the idea on ArXiv, an...
December 5, 2011 5:42 PM
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Our data show evidence for arsenate in macromolecules that normally contain phosphate, most notably nucleic acids and proteins. One year ago those 18 words ignited quite a media controversy...
October 4, 2011 2:48 PM
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Kai Kupferschmidt
The inhabitants of the Faroe Islands could become the world's first population to be offered full genome sequencing for free, researchers announced at a meeting on personal genomes at...
September 29, 2011 12:23 PM
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A global consortium of mouse genetics centers kicked off a project today that aims to create and test 5000 strains of knockout mice over the next 5 years. The International...