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Outside October 2005 Adam Skolnick	The DNA Diet Are you wasting valuable munch time on food you don't need? A cutting-edge gene test may tell you exactly what your body requires to stay healthy, grow stronger, and recover faster. The list of amateur and pro athletes jumping on the nutrigenomics train continues to grow.
Food Processing October 2011	GenoVive DNA Dieting May Usher In A New Era Of Weight Loss A New Orleans-based company discovers the emerging science of nutrigenomics -- the study of how genes and nutrients interact and how this affects our body's ability to function.
Food Processing June 2006 Kantha Shelke	Diet to fit into your genes The recognition that nutrients have the ability to interact and modulate molecular mechanisms underlying an individual's physiological functions is prompting a revolution in the field of nutrition.
Chemistry World June 6, 2007 Simon Hadlington	Large-Scale Gene Scanning for Common Diseases A multi-center genome scanning project that has analyzed half a million genetic markers in thousands of healthy people and people with a range of common diseases has revealed previously unknown genetic variants of the diseases.
The Motley Fool May 28, 2010 Brian Orelli	Is It Time to Make Money Investing in Genetic Testing? Easier said than done.
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.
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.
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.
IEEE Spectrum April 2005 Prachi Patel Predd	Riding Life's Twists and Turns How a strand of DNA launched the co-founder of Nanogen's career in the technology behind DNA microarrays.
Scientific American June 2009 Melinda Wenner	Genetic Copy Variations and Disease A new sense for how variable numbers of genes cause disease.
Science News April 24, 2004	DNA Day An ivitation to commemorating the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003 and the description of DNA's structure as a double helix in 1953.
Managed Care May 2001 Michael D. Dalzell	Powerful Opportunities For Good and Greed Genetic advances could spawn incredible improvements in health care. Given public demand, they also pose what may be unmanageable issues of resource use...
Chemistry World January 7, 2015 Rebecca Trager	Myriad loses appeal on cancer gene test patents Myriad Genetics has lost its appeal over patents on the BRCA genes that are associated with a higher risk of breast and ovarian cancer.
Salon.com February 13, 2001 Arthur Allen	Size doesn't matter As scientists unveil the human genome findings, it turns out we have a lot fewer genes than we'd thought, and not many more than a fruit fly...
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.
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...
AskMen.com Jacob Franek	Genetic Testing Every day the prospect of individualized genetic testing is slowly becoming commonplace, and certain questions about genetic testing are apparent: What kinds of tests are available? Where can I get them? How accurate are they? And what are the costs?
Chemistry World June 20, 2013 Sarah Houlton	US supreme court rules genes can't be patented In a long-running case against Myriad Genetics, the court decided the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes are a 'product of nature, and not patent eligible merely because [they have] been isolated.'
Wired November 17, 2007 Thomas Goetz	23AndMe Will Decode Your DNA for $1,000. Welcome to the Age of Genomics A much-anticipated Silicon Valley startup called 23andMe offers a thorough tour of your genealogy, tracing your DNA back through the eons.
Chemistry World May 2008 Philip Ball i	Pulling our strings There is much more to DNA than that elegant double helix. The author explores the twists and tangles of chromatin.
Wired November 2002 David Ewing Duncan	DNA as Destiny DNA is the book of life. It's also the book of death. In the future we'll all be read cover to cover. Here's what it's like to take the world's first top-to-bottom gene scan.
Wired August 21, 2007	Three Smart Things About Genomics 1. The real benefit of studying genomes is that it has taught us how little we know... 2. Genomics' reductionist approach has become more holistic... etc.
BusinessWeek November 7, 2005 Catherine Arnst	How Likely Are You To Get Sick? A new DNA database could gauge your risk for disease.
Chemistry World March 1, 2011 Catherine Bacon	Unravelling chromosomes Danish scientists have used a micro device to isolate centimetre-long portions of human DNA to help study the genetic make-up of diseased cells.
The Motley Fool November 17, 2006 Jack Uldrich	Neanderthal DNA Enlightens Investors Investors, the superb performance of 454's gene sequencing equipment on such a difficult and important project bodes well for its future prospects.
The Motley Fool February 4, 2010 Brian Orelli	Surfing the Wave of the Future: Personalized Medicine Medco buys in to personalized medicine. Yesterday Medco Health Solutions said it's purchasing genetic-testing expert DNA Direct.
AskMen.com Ross Bonander	5 Things You Didn't Know: DNA With human cloning and other controversial bombshells waiting just around the corner, expect DNA to remain in the public eye for decades to come.
HHMI Bulletin February 2011	Crucibles of Dynamism Puzzling pockets of redundancy account for about 5 percent of the human genome. Investigator Evan Eichler found a way to interpret what is happening in these areas of genetic repetition.
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 October 31, 2008 Manisha Lalloo	DNA-rewinding protein discovered US scientists have found an enzyme that rewinds sections of DNA whose strands have mistakenly come apart.
HHMI Bulletin Spring 2013 Sarah C.P. Williams	Sounding the Alarm Details on how cells detect and respond to foreign DNA may provide clues to autoimmune diseases.
Chemistry World January 20, 2011 James Urquhart	SNPs on display DNA origami and atomic force microscopy have been combined to reliably detect and image single nucleotide polymorphisms, the most common form of genetic variation in the human genome.
Chemistry World August 23, 2011 Josh Howgego	Expanded genetic alphabet could spell out new genes Chemists have created an artificial genetic code capable of evolving to produce new genes. The code consists of six bases, rather than the standard four, and could form the basis of randomly mutating synthetic life.
Fast Company David Lumb	Apple Is Planning iPhone Apps That Let You Share Your DNA Down the line, these apps could let users share their DNA data just like iPhone users share their locations now, says MIT Technology Review.
AskMen.com January 7, 2016 Nick Rego	Fad Diet Taste Test There are some supremely weird diets out there. We picked five of the most popular (and weirdest) fad diets out there... and tasted them.
Managed Care November 2006 Maureen Glabman	Genetic Testing: Major Opportunity, Major Problems Whether a person is likely to develop diabetes, cancer, schizophrenia, or stroke will be reasonably well predicted, and tests can also determine whether a patient will respond to a given therapy. That's the good part.
Salon.com August 11, 2000 Jackie Stevens	Does capitalism make you sick? Gene studies are sexy and well funded, but they can buttress racial thinking and distract the public from the socioeconomic roots of disease.
Bio-IT World February 18, 2004	The Quest for Complex Genes Genetic sleuths are homing in on genes for complex diseases with the help of new, and some not so new, tools and strategies.
PC Magazine July 13, 2005 John R. Quain	DNA Printing Press A group of scientists believes it has an inexpensive nanoprinting technique that could lead to the mass production of DNA-based chips that could revolutionize disease detection.
Chemistry World October 7, 2011 Sarah Farley	Detecting diseases with DNA sensors DNA sensors detect pathogenic and genetic diseases by binding to target DNA strands that are related to the disease and giving a signal that shows how much of the DNA is present.
BusinessWeek May 9, 2005 John Carey	Dr. Francis S. Collins: On The Trail Of Disease Genes Collins is leading the search for DNA variations that can result in illnesses.
Chemistry World April 19, 2012 Andy Extance	Polymers perform non-DNA evolution Scientists have found that six polymer alternatives to DNA can pass on genetic information, and have evolved one type to specifically bind target molecules.
Salon.com June 27, 2000 Tabitha M. Powledge	Book of life? Hosanna! The Human Genome Project has been completed. We will now cure diseases, weed out defective genes and create a new supergeneration in the near future. Not.
Scientific American December 19, 2005	Lean Gene Machine An ocean bacterium has the most streamlined genome: P. ubique apparently has traded potential for economy in a big way, making its genome the equivalent of a fuel-stingy Volkswagen Beetle, whereas human DNA is more akin to a gas-guzzling Hummer pulling an RV trailer plus a boat.
AskMen.com March 8, 2014	What You Should Eat To Get The Best Real-World Results AskMen staffers try out four faddish diet plans -- paleolithic, vegan, gluten-free and alternate-day fasting -- to see how they measure up.
Outside January 2010 John Bradley	Man vs. Food Exercise enough and you can eat whatever you want -- Right? Wrong. Trust me, I spent a full year dieting. What I learned could change your life.
Technology Research News August 27, 2003	Detector senses single DNA Researchers from the University of California at Los Angeles have tapped differences in the folding characteristics of single-stranded and double-stranded DNA to make a sensor capable of detecting a single DNA molecule.
Chemistry World November 16, 2006 Simon Hadlington	Gene-Reading Enzyme Catapulted by Scrunch Power Two teams of researchers have solved a conundrum that has baffled molecular biologists for 20 years -- how the enzyme responsible for `reading' genes can release itself from the portion of DNA to which it initially binds extremely tightly.
The Motley Fool February 2, 2010 Brian Orelli	Shaking Up the Biotech Industry A judge will decide if genes are patentable or not.
AskMen.com Phil Franklin	Is A Low-Carb Diet Right For You? While there are those who suggest that the low-carb craze has finally reached its zenith, millions of people the world over continue to use these diets to regulate their weight.