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HHMI Bulletin Aug 2010 Janelle Weaver	Scientists Identify a Gene That Drives Fruit Fly's Thirst Kristin Scott, an HHMI early career scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, has uncovered a gene, called pickpocket 28 (ppk28), that regulates fruit flies' ability to detect water and how much time they spend drinking.
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HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Jim Keeley	Getting Back to the Bench All Janelia Farm group leaders, fellows, and junior fellows actively engage in research. They work to discover the basic rules and mechanisms of the brain's information-processing systems and developing biological and computational techniques for creating and interpreting biological images.
Scientific American June 2009 Melinda Wenner	Genetic Copy Variations and Disease A new sense for how variable numbers of genes cause disease.
Science News June 11, 2005 Christen Brownlee	Calories May Not Count in Life Extension A team of researchers has shown in fruit flies that shifting a diet's relative amounts of nutrients, such as carbohydrates, protein, and fat, while only modestly cutting calories, extends life span just as much as a drastic calorie cut does.
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2010 Virginia Hughes	Glimpsing Inside a Moving Fruit Fly's Brain Vivek Jayaraman wants to capture, in real time, how the fly's brain responds to a changing environment. Ultimately, he hopes to uncover very basic patterns -- "algorithms" -- of fly brain activity that hold true in more complex brains including, presumably, ours.
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Mitch Leslie	Creating Internal Maps Combining complementary skills, a team of neuroscientists studies how flies navigate their surroundings.
IEEE Spectrum March 2011 Lucks & Arkin	Synthetic Biology's Hunt for the Genetic Transistor How genetic circuits will unlock the true potential of bioengineering
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...
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.
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.
Chemistry World December 2, 2010 Akshat Rathi	Using fruit flies' sweet tooth Australian researchers have used fruit flies' sweet tooth to help in attempts to develop new sugar alternatives.
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.
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.
Bio-IT World April 15, 2003 Malorye Branca	Beyond the Blueprint How will the wealth of data emanating from the human genome and allied technologies impact research on health and disease?
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.
Fast Company September 2000 John Ellis	The Secret of Life The mapping of the human genome, says Craig Venter, will change science, research, medicine, politics, health insurance, and the way biology looks at the last 3 billion years of evolution. And that's just the beginning.
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.
Bio-IT World September 2006 Robert M. Frederickson	Assays and Knowledgebases for Genomic Analysis An important aspect of any genomic analysis -- whether expression profiling or analysis of DNA-binding elements as above -- is the integration of the data with existing knowledge.
IEEE Spectrum February 2011 Tekla S. Perry	Dream Jobs 2011: Insect Imagineer Gus Lott designs virtual reality systems for bugs and rats so that we can study their brains -- and ours
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Geotimes November 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Neanderthal DNA Unraveled Probing fossil DNA for the genetic information of a long-extinct species might sound like a feat fit for Hollywood. For two research teams, however, the stunt is starting to become reality, as they have begun to unravel the genetic code of Neanderthals.
Chemistry World June 30, 2011 Laura Howes	Chemically evolved bacteria European scientists have created an Escherichia coli strain with a separate genome using chlorinated DNA.
HHMI Bulletin Spring 2013 Jennifer Michalowski	JAABA: Automating the Human Observer Software can be trained to recognize behaviors in several animals, including adult fruit flies, fruit fly larvae, and mice -- even by a user with no background in computer science.
The Motley Fool February 13, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Has Stern Lost His Touch? Stern just hasn't been as entertaining as when he was toiling away under Viacom's more restrictive shackles. Investors should be asking if this is only temporary.
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.
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 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.
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Wired February 25, 2008 Julie Sloane	15th Anniversary: DNA-Customized Medicine Still Stuck in the Pipeline Gene scanning isn't yet standard practice. But over the past six years, medicine has been inching closer to prescriptions that are custom-matched to a patients' DNA.
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.
Science News April 22, 2006	Finding Form A website devoted to advances in the emerging field of evolutionary developmental biology. Watch brief movies of embryo formation in fruit flies, butterfly wing development, and other natural wonders.
Chemistry World July 4, 2008 Emma Davies	Creating a Second Genetic Code Japanese researchers have made artificial DNA that acts like the real thing, even forming right-handed duplexes with complementary artificial strands.
Reactive Reports Apr/May 2005 David Bradley	At Last, the Structure of DNA Researchers have made a significant advance in our understanding of life's main molecule, using X-ray crystallography to determine the three-dimensional structures of nearly all the possible sequences of a macromolecule.
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.
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