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Police debate use of family DNA to ID suspects
Published February 10, 2010, 6:36 am, The Mercury
DENVER — Police in at least two states are increasingly using a DNA crime-solving technique that some legal experts say amounts to guilt by association: If your brother, father, uncle or son has been in trouble with the law and is in a DNA database because of it, you, too, could fall under suspicion.
Two generations of authentic art
Published February 10, 2010, 6:28 am, The Ambler Gazette
Si Lewin says there are two kinds of artists. One kind is a “genetic” or “authentic” artist, the 91-year-old Foulkeways at Gwynedd resident says.
Expanded London Genetics Web Site Emphasises Importance of Pharmacogenetics in Drug Development
Published February 10, 2010, 6:24 am, PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
London Genetics Limited, an expert in the use of pharmacogenetics in clinical drug discovery and development, is pleased to announce the launch of its expanded web site. The site, which was designed by Opus Design Consultants, highlights how pharmacogenetics can help to target drugs to those patients most likely to benefit, and to increase safety and cost-effectiveness.
Intense sweets taste especially good to some kids
Published February 10, 2010, 6:23 am, Science Daily
Children's response to intense sweet taste is related to both a family history of alcoholism and the child's own self-reports of depression. The findings illustrate how liking for sweets differs among children based on underlying familial and biological factors.
Christine Bushway: Seeking Foods Produced Without Antibiotics? Choose Organic
Published February 10, 2010, 6:15 am, The Huffington Post
Increasingly there have been concerns raised by researchers, as well as by legislators, about the routine use of non-therapeutic levels of antibiotics by agriculture to foster growth of livestock.
Genzyme, Isis say cholesterol drug met trial goal
Published February 10, 2010, 6:15 am, INO News
(AP:NEW YORK) Genzyme Corp. and Isis Pharmaceuticals Inc. said Wednesday their cholesterol drug mipomersen met its goals in a study that tested the drug on patients with a genetic disorder that raises levels of "bad" cholesterol in the blood.
Organic Is Answer to Those Seeking Foods Produced Without Antibiotics
Published February 10, 2010, 6:15 am, PR Newswire via Yahoo! News
GREENFIELD, Mass., Feb. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Choosing foods bearing the organic label is the only way consumers can be sure meats and dairy products they buy have been produced without the use of antibiotics, according to the Organic Trade Association (OTA) in response to a CBS Evening News with Katie Couric segment on livestock production airing Feb. 9 and 10.
Web-Based Tool Predicts The Molecular Causes Of Many Genetic Diseases
Published February 10, 2010, 6:14 am, Medical News Today
It is widely known that genetic mutations cause disease. What are largely unknown are the mechanisms by which these mutations wreak havoc at the molecular level, giving rise to clinically observable symptoms in patients. Now a new study using bioinformatics, led by scientists at the Buck Institute for Age Research, reports the ability to predict the molecular cause of many inherited genetic ...
New Way Found To Kill Pediatric Brain Tumors
Published February 10, 2010, 6:13 am, Medical News Today
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown once again that "ready, fire, aim," nonsensical though it may sound, can be an essential approach to research. The scientists robotically "fired" 2,000 compounds into culture plates containing tumor cells to see if the compounds had any effect. When the robotic screener found one substance had scored a hit by ...
Bioinformatics Study Predicts Molecular Causes Of Many Genetic Diseases
Published February 10, 2010, 6:08 am, redOrbit
Research spearheaded at Buck Institute results in a web-based tool available to other scientistsIt is widely known that genetic mutations cause disease. What are largely unknown are the mechanisms by which these mutations wreak havoc at the molecular level, giving rise to clinically observable symptoms in patients. Now a new study using bioinformatics, led by scientists at the Buck Institute for ...
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