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HHMI Bulletin Feb 2012 Mary Bates	Passing the Sniff Test Researchers are mapping the chemical signaling behind how mice detect friend and foe.
Bio-IT World January 21, 2005 Kevin Davies	Allen Brain Institute Debuts 'Google for Gene Activity' The Allen Institute for Brain Science has released its first set of gene-expression data in the brain for nearly 2,000 mouse genes. The data will have important relevance for the study of brain function, disease, and the role of genes in governing human behavior.
Popular Mechanics September 25, 2009 Erin McCarthy	Fringe's Human Mutant Not Possible, Says Expert We won't ever have to worry about Fringe's part-mole-rat, part-scorpion, part-human mutant in real life because it's not within the realm of possibility.
Scientific American June 2009 Melinda Wenner	Genetic Copy Variations and Disease A new sense for how variable numbers of genes cause disease.
Scientific American June 2005 JR Minkel	RNA to the Rescue The spectacular discovery that a species of plant can summon up genes its parents have lost highlights biologists' increasing recognition of RNA as a more versatile and important molecule in its own right.
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.
AskMen.com August 19, 2001 Joshua Levine	The Ins & Outs Of Heredity If you've ever worried that you might inherit something undesirable from your parents, this is your article...
HHMI Bulletin May 2012 Sarah C. P. Williams	Opening the Floodgates Researchers are using exome sequencing -- zeroing in on the genes that encode proteins -- to explore the biology of certain diseases.
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.
Bio-IT World February 10, 2003 Kevin Davies	With a Click of the Mouse What do Eminem and Mus musculus have in common? About 30,000 genes, for a start. The author mulls over the second mammalian genome.
Chemistry World October 31, 2007 John Bonner	Brain's Wiring Seen in Technicolor Researchers in the US have developed a technique that could allow neurologists to draw a detailed wiring plan of the mammalian brain by inserting genes coding for fluorescent proteins into transgenic mice.
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2011 Cassandra Willyard	A Faster Knockout With a virus, a needle, and an ultrasound machine, researchers have drastically cut the time it takes to disable a gene in mice.
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 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.
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.
Reason Aug/Sep 2000 Ronald Bailey	Strands of Life Book Review: Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, by Matt Ridley
Wired March 23, 2009 Jonah Lehrer	Scientists Map the Brain, Gene by Gene I'm in the dissection room of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, and the scientist next to me is in a hurry.
BusinessWeek January 16, 2006 Arlene Weintraub	What's Ethical And What Isn't? The debate over using human cells in animals for medical research.
Scientific American June 2007 Sally Lehrman	Going Beyond X and Y Babies born with mixed sex organs often get immediate surgery. New genetic studies, Eric Vilain says, should force a rethinking about sex assignment and gender identity.
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.
BusinessWeek June 13, 2005 John Carey	The NIH's Roadmap for Research Charting the human genome was just the beginning. Now the focus is creating pathways that will lead to practical applications.
Chemistry World February 23, 2007 Michael Gross	X Labelling Springs a Surprise In stark contrast to expectations, researchers have found that the active versions of genes on X chromosomes are more heavily methylated than the inactive versions.
HHMI Bulletin Spring 2013 Nicole Kresge	Use It or Lose It HHMI investigator Catherine Dulac of Harvard University has uncovered a small molecule that plays a big role in the process of tuning olfactory neurons to the environment.
HHMI Bulletin May 2012 Nicole Kresge	Fighting Fluoride with CSF Bacteria, such as streptococcus, use an RNA switch to turn on genes that fight off toxic fluoride.
AskMen.com	The "Fatso" Gene One hour of moderate to vigorous exercise a day can help teens beat the effects of a common obesity-related gene with the nickname "fatso."
Chemistry World December 3, 2012 Laura Howes	Antimalarials should target female parasites The Plasmodium parasite, unlike humans, for example, does not have different genes coding for different sexes. New antimalarials should target the slower evolving female genes, or those that are expressed by both sexes.
PC Magazine October 21, 2003	Bits & Bytes Walk-Through Apparitions... The Windows ATM... Modeling the Brain
Bio-IT World February 11, 2005 Kevin Davies	Bioinformatics on the Brain Adaptive selection: accelerated mutation rate produced humans' large brain.
Chemistry World October 12, 2006 Jessica Ebert	Reducing the Number of Genes Needed for Life Two of the smallest bacterial genomes sequenced to date provide new clues to the minimum number of genes required to support cellular life.
The Motley Fool March 18, 2008 Brian Orelli	The Nuts and Bolts of Drug Research Merck just released a pair of papers detailing the network of proteins that are linked to obesity, but the pharmaceutical company won't benefit much financially from its studies. So who will?
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.
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 Nov 2010	Vicki Chandler: Plants Contribute Basic Biological Lessons to Science" Vicki Chandler's research on how plants regulate their genes may ultimately inform studies of human diseases. She's leading the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation's partnership with HHMI to support more of this kind of fundamental plant science.
Salon.com May 25, 1999 Arthur Allen	Is it in the genes? Is it in the genes?: Studies suggest human behavior isn't as predetermined as some thought.
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
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2010 Sarah C.P. Williams	Scientists Track Down Genetic Mutations In Record Time Scanning the human genome for a single disease-causing mutation is like taking a copy of War and Peace in a foreign language and searching for one misspelled word
Bio-IT World December 15, 2004 Mark D. Uehling	Roche: Computers Map Genes 1,000x Faster In a single afternoon, Roche colleagues believe, any scientist who follows their recipe should be able to zero in on the location of a gene responsible for a key phenotypic trait.
Scientific American July 2009 Charles Q. Choi	Being More Infantile May Have Led to Bigger Brains Genetic evidence suggests that juvenile traits helped separate chimps from us
The Motley Fool September 28, 2007 Brian Orelli	RNAi Doesn't Kill Mice After All From Merck, to AstraZeneca, to Novartis, big pharma continues to pump hundreds of millions of dollars into unproven RNAi technology. Investors, take note.
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.
Chemistry World August 26, 2007 Michael Gross	Grapevine Genome Reveals Wine's Flavour Secrets The genome of the grapevine, Vitis vinifera, has been decoded by scientists. The research reveals the genetic origins of certain aromas and health-promoting compounds in wine.
Chemistry World March 23, 2007 John Bonner	Mice Get Full-Colour Vision Genetically engineered mice that see the world in full color, or at least in the same colors as humans see, have been created in a US lab. Most mammals lost the ability to distinguish colors during the age of the dinosaurs.
Chemistry World June 7, 2007 Jessica Ebert	Sensitive Sequencing Technique for Early Diagnosis A new technique, with sensitivity unmatched by current technologies, can detect changes in gene transcription that occur during the course of a disease, report US researchers.
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 July 13, 2011 Hayley Birch	Naked mole-rat genome holds clue to beating cancer The recently published draft sequence of the naked mole-rat genome promises to reveal the secrets of its long and remarkably cancer-free existence, potentially providing new targets for anti-cancer drugs.
HHMI Bulletin May 2011 Sarah C.P. Williams	The Pace of Evolution A close look at the human genome shows the slow and steady beat of adaptation.
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2010 Kendall Powell	Planarians As Model Organisms All model organisms for research got chosen because they exaggerate a particular biology.
Chemistry World January 28, 2011 David Barden	Chips make short work of RNA synthesis Chinese scientists have developed a much easier way to make the short strands of RNA that are an essential tool in understanding what genes do.
Salon.com April 24, 2000 Mark Compton	Lean, green gene-counting machine Incyte CEO Roy Whitfield gives biotech investors and patent critics a few lessons on genomic research.
Bio-IT World December 10, 2002 Rotem Sorek	Alternative Splicing: Listen to the Mouse The completed mouse genome may help to finally pin down the size of the transcriptome.