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Cat Cravings
By Jef Akst
A mutated feline receptor for sweet tastes explains why cats don’t love sugar but do dig mushrooms.
Video Gamers Help Solve Disease
By Jef Akst
The collective intelligence of thousands of video game players is helping researchers understand the regulation of more than 500 different disease genes.
$400M for Personalized Medicine
By Edyta Zielinska
The National Institutes of Health promises about $400 million to help get personalized genetics into the clinic.
Arsenic Bug’s Genome Sequenced
By Bob Grant
Researchers have mapped out the DNA of what some scientists claim to be an arsenic loving bacterium.
The DNA Data Problem
By Bob Grant
Has life science reached a tipping point in how it handles mountains of genomic information?
Stem Cells: Old vs. New
By Bob Grant
A new study finds key differences between established and new human embryonic stem cell lines.
Sensing Fat
By Beverly J. Tepper and Kathleen L. Keller
Are genes that alter the perception of fat making us fat?
Teen DNA Detectives
By Kerry Grens
Genomicist Mark Stoeckle and three high school students have taken do-it-yourself science to a new level. Research headquarters are Stoeckle’s…
Barcode High
By Kerry Grens
The story of a group of high school students who, with the help of a Rockefeller University researcher, conducted and published studies on the biological provenance of sushi and teas from around New York City.
Cancer’s Escape Routes
By Tia Ghose
Scientists are beginning to discover myriad strategies tumors use to avoid attacks by anti-cancer drugs.
