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BusinessWeek June 14, 2004 Arlene Weintraub	Can Drug-Busters Beat New Steroids? Scientists enlisted by anti-doping agencies are trying to stay a step ahead of the cheaters as the Athens Olympics approach.
Chemistry World July 2, 2012 Michael Stow	Protecting the spirit of competition With the London 2012 Olympics now upon us, the issue of doping in sport is once more in the media spotlight. As new therapies emerge from the pharmaceutical industry, we must be vigilant for new doping threats and new and improved detection methods are continually investigated and developed.
Chemistry World February 8, 2010 Rajendrani Mukhopadhyay	To catch a cheating athlete As the athletes take center stage at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympic Winter Games this month, chemists will be hard at work behind the scenes to catch athletes looking to win by taking drugs or blood products to artificially boost their performance during the competition.
Chemistry World July 18, 2008 James Mitchell Crow	New drug test misses Olympic deadline A biomarker-based test has been developed to detect athletes that have used banned drugs long after the compounds themselves become undetectable - but it won't be approved in time for the Beijing Olympics.
The Motley Fool July 30, 2007 Brian Orelli	Another Blow to Gene Therapy The FDA shuts down a clinical trial, tripping up Targeted Genetics and possibly its competitors. A subject in the trial of their gene therapy arthritis medication died shortly after taking the drug.
Chemistry World June 9, 2008 Simon Hadlington	Artificial virus silences genes Scientists in Korea have created an artificial virus that can target the nucleus of cancer cells and knock out specific genes.
HHMI Bulletin February 2012 Sarah C.P. Williams	The Twists and Turns of Immunity Fred Alt has built a career making sense of the immune system -- specifically, the diverse antibodies that fight off invading molecules, from viruses to cancer cells to pollen.
Chemistry World June 22, 2006	Ethicist Approves Performance Enhancing Drugs A leading ethicist has questioned the value of banning some of the sports drugs listed by the World Anti-Doping Agency. It's a view rejected strenuously by former Olympian Linford Christie, who tested positive for the anabolic steroid nandrolone in 1999.
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2011	Seeing is Believing Today, researchers are finding clever ways to deliver long-lasting, healthy genes without triggering a serious immune response.
Scientific American July 2008 Christine Soares	Looking at Yesterday's Genes for Tomorrow's Cures Resurrected "jumping gene" could deliver DNA.
BusinessWeek April 22, 2010 Rob Waters	Gene Therapy Takes a Turn for the Better Researchers and investors are heartened by advances in gene therapy. Analysts say revenues are still several years off, however.
Chemistry World September 26, 2006 Fiona Case	Synchronised Delivery for DNA and Drugs Polymer capsules that can simultaneously deliver drug molecules and DNA into a cell could boost the power of cancer treatments.
Wired January 2007 Mark McClusky	The Righteous Fury of Dick Pound As head of the World Anti-Doping Agency, this man is on a crusade to rid elite sports of performance-enhancing drugs. And he's making a few enemies along the way.
Outside July 2005 Brian Alexander	The Awful Truth About Drugs in Sports Drug-testing expert Don Catlin is the doping detective who helped break the BALCO scandal wide open- and the man who's about to launch a radical new campaign to finally solve the problem of drugs in sports.
Scientific American September 2009 Melinda Wenner	Gene therapy: An Interview with an Unfortunate Pioneer Lessons learned by James M. Wilson, the scientist behind the first gene therapy death
Bio-IT World November 12, 2002 Sue Mayer	Are Gene Patents in the Public Interest? Two recent studies from Britain argue against the unbridled patenting of genes and raise tough ethical questions.
Chemistry World November 5, 2012 Andrew Turley	Approval for first gene therapy drug Alipogene tiparvovec, marketed as Glybera, has become the first gene therapy drug to win approval in either the US or the EU.
Salon.com May 1, 2000 Arthur Allen	Listening to DNA The genome project is getting the buzz. But the real breakthroughs may come from labs out of the limelight, like Gene Logic.
Chemistry World October 14, 2011 James Mitchell Crow	Twist in the tale to improve gene therapy New insights into the physical properties of different forms of DNA could help to improve gene therapy, chemists in Spain and India say.
Salon.com June 1, 2000 Tabitha M. Powledge	Gene therapy R.I.P.? When the country's biggest gene therapy institute was ordered to stop testing on humans last week, the action marked the end of an era fraught with dubious claims to success and a mess of unreported adverse effects.
Chemistry World February 24, 2010 James Urquhart	Buckyball-based gene delivery Japanese researchers have demonstrated effective gene delivery in mice using carbon buckyballs.
HHMI Bulletin Winter 2013 Sarah C.P. Williams	Cellular Search Engine Craig Mello's lab has now uncovered the reason piRNA molecules are so ubiquitous and exist in so many forms in C. elegans: so they can pair with essentially any genetic sequence they encounter during their endless scanning.
National Defense November 2010 Eric Beidel	To Counter Bioterrorism, The Key is Boosting Immunity That's why Texas A&M University researchers are investigating ways to arm Americans against attacks involving toxins, viruses and bacteria.
Reason Aug/Sep 2000 Ronald Bailey	Strands of Life Book Review: Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, by Matt Ridley
Chemistry World February 22, 2011 Amaya Camara-Campos	Repairing faulty genes Israeli scientists have developed compounds that could be better treatments for genetic diseases than current drugs.
BusinessWeek February 10, 2011 Rob Waters	Sangamo's Bet Against AIDS: Gene Therapy Sangamo's stock has more than doubled since July 6, when the company, with no products on the market, reported success of its gene therapy approach in mice in the journal Nature Biotechnology.
Fast Company November 2009 David H. Freedman	The Gene Bubble: Why We Still Aren't Disease-Free When the human genome was first sequenced nearly a decade ago, the world lit up with talk about how new gene-specific drugs would help us cheat death. Well, the verdict is in: Keep eating those greens.
Outside January 2010 Brian Alexander	Good Cop, Bad Cop A growing number of critics contend that WADA, the international agency that oversees drug testing in sports, has become overzealous and arrogant, sometimes trampling the civil liberties of athletes in the process.
BusinessWeek March 6, 2006 Bruce Einhorn	A Cancer Treatment You Can't Get Here China, with lower regulatory hurdles, is racing to a lead in gene therapy.
The Motley Fool February 2, 2010 Brian Orelli	Shaking Up the Biotech Industry A judge will decide if genes are patentable or not.
Wired September 2002 Amanda Griscom	Take These Genes and Call Me in the Morning Gene vaccines may be relatively new, but they're the logical outgrowth of two familiar strands of medical science.
Chemistry World March 8, 2007 Jessica Ebert	How to Catch an Insulin-Doping Athlete A growing number of athletes reportedly take insulin to boost their performance illegally, but controlling insulin abuse has gone largely unchecked. Now, a urine test designed by German and Belgian scientists could be set to change all that.
Popular Mechanics April 15, 2009 Erin McCarthy	Is Fringe's Genetic Monster Possible? Unlike the monster on Fringe, altered animals typically have only a single gene difference from non-altered animals -- but they can look different.
HHMI Bulletin May 2012 Sarah C. P. Williams	Stephen Quake: Innovative Thinking on Genetic Tests His ideas have already led to a blood test to tell a pregnant woman whether her fetus has Down syndrome. Now, the HHMI investigator is pushing further, to track the success of heart transplants and diagnose autoimmune diseases and allergies.
AskMen.com October 30, 2013 Michelle Magnan	The Difference Between Usain Bolt And You: The point that David Epstein explores at length in The Sports Gene, is that no two people respond to sports training the same way, because no two genomes are the same.
Search Engine Watch August 16, 2004 Gary Price	An Olympic Selection of Search Resources The 2004 Summer Olympics are underway in Athens and the web is home to plenty of information that makes watching the games even more interesting.
Managed Care August 2004 Thomas Morrow	10,000 Cells on a Chip Signal Start of New Era of Diagnosis Diseases will soon be defined by biochemical pathways and genetic interactions. Biochips may identify patients likely to respond to therapeutic agents. All of this is a big deal for health plans.
Salon.com December 19, 2000 Carolyn McConnell	"The Century of the Gene" by Evelyn Fox Keller A new book argues that there may be no such thing as a gene. At least, it has proved very difficult to isolate a discrete physical item that can do the work our notion of the gene does...
Chemistry World April 2010	Column: The crucible We are getting better at manipulating cells to grow into the tissues we need. Chemical factors are key, says Philip Ball
Chemistry World September 4, 2006 Michael Gross	Antibodies in the Greenhouse Researchers have developed a way to produce molecules of the antibody class immunoglobulin G (IgG) in the leaves of ordinary tobacco plants.
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan	Pro Video Gamers Will Now Be Subject To Drug Tests The Electronic Sports League announced that it will start screening professional video game players for performance-enhancing drugs at a competition this August.
Bio-IT World March 8, 2005 Kevin Davies	Evolution of New Genes Studied EMBL researchers use comparative genomic analysis to identify new primate-specific gene family.
BusinessWeek April 12, 2004 John Carey	Gene-Based Therapy: Back To The Couch Recent setbacks show (again) that biotech needs more patience and less ballyhoo
Managed Care August 2007 Thomas Morrow	Gene Expression Microarray Improves Prediction of Breast Cancer Outcomes Flash-frozen samples of surgically removed breast cancer tissue are the key to measuring a patient's risk of metastasis.
The Motley Fool July 1, 2011 Dan Radovsky	Can the Human Genetics Industry Survive the Courts? The future of gene patents is at stake.
Nurse Practitioner August 2009 Linda A. Howe	Pharmacogenomics and management of cardiovascular disease Prior to the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003, individual responses to medications were usually termed idiosyncrasies. Ethnic differences were not usually seen as genetic variants, as is the case today.
Pharmaceutical Executive October 1, 2008	The other half of an HIV mystery is solved When HIV infects a human immune cell, which of the cell's own genes play a role?
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2010 Sarah C.P. Williams	Switching Plants' Reproductive Methods The shipments of seeds that farms rely on at the beginning of each growing season could soon be a relic of the past. Scientists have discovered how to coax plants to clone themselves by altering their reproductive methods.
Outside November 2003 Stuart Stevens	Drug Test Everybody knows that many athletes cheat by using performance-enhancing drugs like steroids, testosterone, and EPO. But what is it like to take these banned substances? Do they really help you win? To find out, we sent an amateur cyclist out to try them and report back.