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Kevin Kimberlin claims that a company has the right to prevent patients and their physicians from reading gene sequences present in the patients' bodies, despite the widespread availability of instruments that readily allow them to do so .

This weekend we celebrate the beginning of the summer season. For some of us it means opening up the cottage or lake house.

Main Category: Immune System / Vaccines Also Included In: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses ; Genetics Article Date: 25 May 2013 - 0:00 PDT The human gut is loaded with commensal bacteria - "good" microbes that, among other functions, help the body digest food.

Over the past years, Vienna has developed into one of the leading centres of population genetics.

This image made from video provided by Ayako Wada-Katsumata shows glucose-averse German cockroaches avoiding a dab of jelly, which contains glucose, and favoring the peanut butter.

From the Center for Human Genetic Research , Hemorrhagic Stroke Research Group , Division of Neurocritical Care and Emergency Neurology, Department of Neurology , and Department of Emergency Medicine , Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA;Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA ; Department of Neurology, ... (more)

Several computational and wet-bench postdoctoral positions are immediately available as part of an interdisciplinary research team using advanced high-throughput and analysis strategies including regulates chromatin structure and gene expression in early development.

Editor's note: Gayle Sulik is a medical sociologist, founder of the Breast Cancer Consortium and author of "Pink Ribbon Blues: How Breast Cancer Culture Undermines Women's Health." Follow her on Twitter: @pinkribbonblues -- Angelina Jolie, when writing about her preventive double mastectomy, did not discuss how much her surgeries cost, but she did ... (more)

Can human genes be patented? That was the question posed by Alan J. Snyder, vice president and associate provost for research and graduate studies at Lehigh, and Lee Kaplan, scientific director of cellular and molecular genetics at Health Network Laboratories, at a panel discussion on campus this spring.

Widely available in pharmacies and health stores, phosphatidylserine is a natural food supplement produced from beef, oysters, and soy.

Professor Stuart Kim teaches his Genetics class at Stanford University in Stanford, Calif., on Tuesday, May 21, 2013.

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The Queensland Institute of Medical Research will head the Australian data collection team for the Anorexia Nervosa Genetics Initiative , recruiting 8000 women from Australia, the US, Sweden and Denmark for the landmark study.

The genetics and history of Tibet are fascinating to many. To be honest the primary reason here is elevation.

The strikingly beautiful, milky coats of white tigers are caused by a single change in a known pigment gene, a new study finds.

From the Cardiovascular Division, British Heart Foundation Centre, King's College London, UK ; The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK ; and Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory of Computational Biology, Max Planck Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, ... (more)

The researchers have traced the cause to a single change in a gene known to drive pigmentation in a host of animals, including humans.

Researchers from the Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, and the University's Brain Tumor Program, have developed a new mouse model of malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors that allow them to discover new genes and gene pathways driving this type of cancer.

A surge in interest in "mail order" gene tests is expected after actress Angelina Jolie's recent announcement.

Mayo Clinic has teamed up with a New Jersey company to create a joint venture that aims to create diagnostic cancer tests that use gene-sequencing technology.