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         <title><![CDATA[Looks Like You Don't Get Points for Creativity]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger describes his experience judging students' projects in his machine-learning class.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146931-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Where Have All the Patients Gone?]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[As fewer patients enroll in clinical trials, medical centers and other groups are trying new tactics to lure them in.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146932-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Threading Together Those Itty Bitty Reads]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger's look at how short-read sequence alignment tools stack up.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146933-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[This Week in Nature]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Nature this week reports on regenerative medicine, a Drosophila nucleosome map, metabolic phenotypes, and more.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146934-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Yeast and Cancer: Similar But Different?]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A paper compares mutant yeast to cancer cells.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146936-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Maybe It'll Let Them Pay Attention to Consumer Genomics]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The FDA commissioner officially asks Congress for more money.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146937-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Sweet Smell of Posterboard]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger posts pictures of science fair posters.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146903-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[A Paper Chip]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Harvard's George Whitesides places a microfluidic device on a tiny piece of paper.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146904-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Put That Money Towards a Fancy MacBook Air Instead]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Two researchers discuss the benefits and drawbacks of consumer genomics tests.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146905-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Hopefully They'll Ignore Watson's Comments]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Stephen Hawking helps launch the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences project.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146906-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Don't Spend It All ... On One Fridge.]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Bloggers wonder where grant money is spent.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146907-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Outsmarting HIV With Sys Bio]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Scientists use computational biology to reconstruct viral populations.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146908-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Thanks, But We'll Just Get Ours Off the Rack]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Public criticism for a project that appears to put us one step closer to designer babies.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146872-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Pointy-Haired Boss, Take Note]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The CIO of Harvard med school lists 10 traits of a great boss.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146873-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[We Knew Protein Folding Was All a Game]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger reports on a new game-based tool to solve protein structures.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146874-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Part Bird, Part Mammal ... Wait, Isn't This the Start of a Joke?]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[News of the platypus genome sequence brings more public attention than usual -- perhaps, as the NYT posits, because it's just such an odd animal.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146875-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Start Out Simple and Work from There]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A systems biology skeptic finds reason to believe.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146851-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[What a 'Previvor' Learned from Her Genome]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The New York Times reviews a book from a BRCA1-positive journalist who writes about the effects of knowing parts of her genome.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146852-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Font of Wisdom ... Universities?]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger wonders whether industry will continue to rely on software developed by academics.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146853-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Thank Goodness for Non-Traditional Models]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Ewan Birney blogs about highlights from the Biology of Genomes meeting.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146854-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[This Week in Science]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[This week in Science, there's protein-protein interactions, HIV research, interleukin 34, and more. ]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146827-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[We Were Kinda Hoping At Least a Punch Was Thrown]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger reports on personal genetics from the Biology of Genomes meeting.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146828-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[It's Good Practice For ... the Rest of Your Research Life]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Undergraduates learn to clone and sequence a gene.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146829-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[This Week in Nature]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[This week, Nature has the platypus genome, ChemSpider, REST, and more.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146799-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Another Dot-com Shakeout? We Hope Not...]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Regulators and doctors begin vetting personal genetic tests.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146800-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Extra Spending Money Always Goes for Something Useful, Right?]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger wonders whether Americans will spend money on genetic tests.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146801-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[How Much Would It Get at an Auction?]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger compares scientific research to fine art.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146802-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Insider View of Navigenics]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger interviews Navigenics CSO Dietrich Stephan.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146769-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Don't Blame Us for the 'Intellectual Backwater' Comment]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Louisiana is the latest to call for teaching creationism in science classes.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146770-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Just When You Thought PCR Was Boring, Here Come Magnetic Nanoparticles]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Researchers in Singapore have designed a chip to perform PCR on samples using magnetic nanoparticles.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146771-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Think Twice (Or Three Times) Before You Buy]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Consumers have to weigh the pros and cons of taking genetic tests.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146775-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Google, Can You Help Us Out Here?]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger thinks open data needs business models.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146776-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Welcome to Your 15 Minutes]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger who used the 23andMe service is interviewed on a radio show.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146741-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Just When You Were Trying to Forget, Signs That the Presidential Race Is Still Going]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Not sure how the US presidential candidates weigh in on issues like stem cell research and biofuels? Tech Review offers a cheat sheet.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146742-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[This Will Come as a Surprise to Absolutely No One]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Scientific American has an article about how the finished human genome isn't really, you know, finished.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146743-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[We're All for New 'Omes, But a Diseasome? Really?]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Nosology embraces genomics research.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146744-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[That's Probably More Than You Wanted to Know About Your Liver]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Researchers perform a genome-wide association study on gene expression in the human liver.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146745-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Remembering Giuseppe Attardi]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[NYT reports on the death of molecular biologist Giuseppe Attardi.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146713-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Yet Another Reason to Take Those Calcium Supplements]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Researchers say Y. pestis may have such high virulence because of its aspartic acid production.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146714-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Lucky Break Versus Hard at Work]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger muses on the roles of hard work and luck in science.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146715-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Clearly, It Was Recorded at 4 A.M.]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Two undergraduates post a DNA replication song to YouTube.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146716-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Finding the Obscure Papers Just Got Easier]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger demos NextBio's search capabilities.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146717-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[It's Hard to Ignore the Results of Two Tests]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[23andMe and deCODEme's results are nearly identical.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146718-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Looks Like Open Access Fans May Be Squaring Off]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Science Commons parses the difference between weak and strong open access policies.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146681-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Hey, FDA, If You're Not Busy with Other Things...]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[An advisory panel calls for government oversight of genetic tests.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146682-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Humans: The Grandest Challenge of All]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Tech Review interviews Lee Hood.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146683-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[And We Used to Think Academic Freedom Was Commendable]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[WSJ says critics of evolution are finding success with new approaches.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146684-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Jim, We Know You Just Can't Help It]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[James Watson speaks at New York University.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146685-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[This Week in Science]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[In this issue of Science, the focus is on GINA, gene therapy in eyes, mitochondrial DNA, and more.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146686-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Up Next, Entire Science Classes Via Twitter]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger reports on ideas for improving science education.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146654-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Maybe It Would Be Better If They Threw in a Year's Supply of Turtle Wax]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Is genetic testing ready for primetime? WSJ and Portfolio magazine consider.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146655-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Being the Winnowed is Rough Work]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Being a scientist is hard work, says a blogger.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146656-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Tall, Passive-Aggressive Ivory Tower]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Two bloggers commiserate on their relationship with academia.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146657-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[This Week in Nature]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[This week Nature reports on the CIRM, the memristor, structural variation, and more.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146658-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Insert Barry Bonds Joke Here]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A study shows that genetic variation can mask the signs of doping.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146619-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Arts &amp; Culture Day at GTO]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[We've got poetry, we've got a theme song, we've got great ways to help you procrastinate.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146620-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Grad School Might Be More Fun in a Tropical Paradise, Though]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[US universities need to focus more on science to stay competitive.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146621-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[There Must Be People Who Would Support Teaching Alchemy]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Francisco Ayala says evolution is a well-supported theory that does not exclude belief in God.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146622-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Spend 30 Minutes on Your Intro. Everyone Loves That]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger posts about bad presentations.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146623-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Gene Patent Debate Continues]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger wonders if genetic testing patent laws will do more harm than good.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146624-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Good Luck Convincing Them That Their DNA Data Is Secure]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The WSJ has an article on security lapses in medical data, pointing out that patients may be losing confidence in electronic medical records.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146589-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[It Also Works as an English-to-Science Guide]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[If you're not sure what that paper really means, check out this handy science-to-English translation guide.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146590-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[So We Gather You're a Masochist]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger says rejection is a way of life in science -- but adds that there are still plenty of published papers that should've been rejected.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146591-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Maybe Not All the Miracles, But Surely Some of Them?]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Researchers track a gene variant that explains the racial divide in response to beta blockers, and Arno Motulsky sits for a Q&amp;A on PGx.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146592-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Take That, SciFoo]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Twitterers scheme for a BioBarCamp.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146550-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[If We Can't Get Designer, What About a Convincing Knockoff?]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[An article discusses the perils of genetically designed life.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146551-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Chalk One Up for Scientific Destiny]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[ScienceWoman discusses her career trajectory.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146553-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Criminal Masterminds, Take Note]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[California is searching its databases for relatives of suspected criminals.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146555-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[More Plasmid for Less]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger posts tips for optimizing plasmid production.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146557-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Best DIY Project Yet]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A computer whiz shows how to turn your PS3 into a laptop.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146520-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[My Genes Made Me Do It]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A columnist addresses the realities of using genetic information in the courts.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[This Week in Science]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[This week, Science gives us a special section on plant genomes, RNA metabolism and oncogenesis, a profile of Pardis Sabeti, and more.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Early Years Were Interesting, Too]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Humans existed in two separate lineages for most of their history.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[What, No Big Names Could Make It?]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A panel dicussion addresses personal genetics and disease.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146524-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Happy DNA Day]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Here are some ways to celebrate DNA.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[We'll Have to Complain if This Interferes with Our Supply of Pixie Sticks]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Synthetic bio firm Amyris plans to make biofuel from Brazilian sugarcane.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Just Like that Ant and His Rubber Tree Plant, We've Got High Hopes]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[After 13 years of struggles, the GINA bill looks like it will finally be passed.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[If the US is Going To Fall Behind, Might As Well Go All Out]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Texas and Florida shill for creationism.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[This Week in Nature]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[This week, Nature serves up the Human Proteome Project, Joondalup, the red flour beetle and papaya genomes, and more.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Lab Managing's a Hard Job]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger extols the virtues of lab techs.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Maybe Pharma Could Use a Bill Gates]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Bill Gates will leave Microsoft in July.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[It Beats Sitting on a Plane for Six Hours]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger professes her affection for webinars.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[What's in a Name?]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Should Drosophila melanogaster change its name?]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Too Soon to Tell]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The Boston Globe looks at personal genomics companies.]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[Scientists use whole genome analysis to study cis- and trans-regulated gene expression.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[At Least It Wasn't Jurassic Park]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger recounts advice for junior faculty.]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[A blogger praises biostatisticians.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[E. Coli: I Just Gotta Be Me]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Genetically identical E. coli are still individuals, writes Carl Zimmer.]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[Science 2.0, yay or nay.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[We Have a Deep and Undying Love of Duct Tape]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Bloggers list the top five lab "MacGyver" moments.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146443-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Or at Least a Startup Boot Camp]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger wonders, where are the startup schools for biologists?]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146444-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Surely Comparing Synthetic Bio to GMO Is Not the Way to Win Over the European Public]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Synthetic biology and GM foods get their due in mainstream media stories.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[All the More Reason to Move to California]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A wire service reports that a new stem cell facility is expected to open in San Diego by 2010.]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[A blogger tells research subjects to forget about privacy.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Keep Placing Bets on the Table and You're Bound to Win]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Google invests in Navigenics.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146415-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[It's More Than Just a 'Movement']]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A study reveals that almost 20 percent of papers were open access in 2006.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Francis vs. the Atheists: This Won't Be Pretty]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Francis Collins battles the angry atheists.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146378-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Perhaps You Were Looking for a New Ringtone]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[GTO celebrates proximity to the weekend with a new DNA song and Neanderthal speech.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[On the Bright Side, You Have Plenty of Time for a Cup of Coffee. Or a Road Trip.]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger finds next-gen sequencing data is pushing the limits of his compute resources.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146380-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Ghostwriting: Great for Biographies, Bad for Scientific Papers]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[JAMA says that Merck's Vioxx papers were written by the company and then credited to academics.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146381-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[This Week in Science]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Science checks out the World of Warcraft, flu evolution, yeast genomics, and more.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Those siRNAs Just Need a Thicker Skin]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger's list of promising cancer treatments includes a few genomic breakthroughs.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Take Your Bases and Mix Thoroughly]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Sandra Porter blogs about polymorphism mapping with 16S ribosomal RNA.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146350-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Darwin's Handwriting Would Make Our Mothers Cry]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Darwin Online has digital versions of Charles Darwin's papers.]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[MIT's Tech Review reports on efforts to sequence a human genome for $100.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[This Week in Nature]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[This week's Nature has next-gen sequencing, plant genomics, shuffling genes in E. coli, and more.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[In the Sea of Personal Genomics, Swim at Your Own Risk]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A Navigenics customer looks at the personal side of personal genomics.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Cancer, Cell Cycles, and Challenges]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger uses computational analysis to compare cancer and cell cycle genes.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[It's Probably Better Than Flipping a Coin]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger tries to decide where to submit her paper.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Sydney Gets a Standing Ovation]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Sydney Brenner advocates a "bedside to bench" approach to medical research.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Have You Hugged Your Database Lately?]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Ewan Birney blogs about better data coordination efforts for human gene and protein repositories.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[It's a War on WARF]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Steve Salzberg takes on WARF's stem cell patents.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Like Bert and Ernie]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A venture capitalist and an MIT scientist have a long business relationship.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146296-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Back in Your Good Graces]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Some researchers refuse honoraria from companies.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146297-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Get on Over to Github]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger posts on social networking for coders.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Checks and Balances for Journals]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger says establishing a court of appeals for authors could alleviate concerns about anonymous reviewers without actually having to unmask them.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[DNA Tests: It's Like the Wild West Out Here]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Newsweek reports on the trend of direct-to-consumer marketing of DNA tests, and NYT offers details on the Navigenics launch.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146270-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Death, Taxes, and Poor Scientists]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Michael White blogs about how the IRS treats scientists unfairly.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Oh, Ology. Now We Get it]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A grad student launches a paper discussion site.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[So Much for the Finer Points]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Harold Varmus speaks on Science Friday.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Not Saying No]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger discusses more on scientists' use of cognition-enhancing drugs.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[This Week in Science]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[This issue of Science reports on Thomas Cech, ScienceDebate2008, live cell imaging, more.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[More Fun and Games]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[More tests from bloggers.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[And They Really Want to Know the Answer]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Open Helix opens an online help desk.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146238-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Making Data Community Property]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger wants a "Wikipedia" for data.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146239-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[For Coffee or a Drink?]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[How do business and science best meet, a blogger asks.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Mitochondrial Pioneer Dies]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Giuseppe Attardi dies.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146208-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Fun and Games]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Test your knowledge at Bayblab.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Cell Supply]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Michael West may be supplying you with stem cells.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[This Week in Nature]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[In Nature this week, there's anti-doping (both real and fake), collaborations, phylogenomic profiling, and more.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Safety, Unlike Beauty, Is Not In the Eye of the Beholder]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger comments on the difficulty of guaranteeing a drug's safety.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Shall We Call It, Pulitzer Version 2.0?]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger announces that science writer Amy Harmon has won the Pulitzer Prize.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[As Long As They Don't Bark in the Middle of the Night]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The UK's Christian Legal Center takes issue with human-animal embryos.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Thinking Outside the Petroleum Box]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[An article sees hope in using biomass for the production of bulk chemicals.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[And Smart, Too]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger looks at the portrayal of female engineers and scientists.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Are You On it?]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The shortlist for the Millennium Technology prize is announced.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Get on Google's Cloud]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Google launches AppEngine.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Plus, They'll Also Be a Record of Who's Doing the Grunt Work]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger discusses undergraduates and open science.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Most Importantly, Anne Has the "Likes Brussels Sprouts" Gene]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Fast Company interviews 23andMe co-founders, Linda Avey and Anne Wojcicki.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Hungry for Bioethics?]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Arthur Caplan reviews a bioethics text.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[The NSF Spreads Some Cheer]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The NSF releases its science and engineering labor market report.]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[A blogger give tips for DNA gel extraction.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Gate-Crashing is a Good Time]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Navigenics opens for business.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Sad to See the Programs Go]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[NCBI cancels its outreach programs.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146128-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[We Ate the Bagel Genome]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger defines what a genome is.]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[A graduate student blogs his thesis.]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[A blogger asks if the new NIH policy will open up text-mining.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[What GWAS Can't Tell Us (Yet)]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[An article tests the common disease/common variant hypothesis in GWAS.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[And It's Probably More Fun!]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger explains why he's a freelance scientist.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Making iPS Cells:  A Common Lab Technique?]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Scientists have created iPS cells from skin cells of eight diseases.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[What's That About Prior Planning?]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger gives advice for annual reviews.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146096-1.html</link>
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         <description><![CDATA[This issue of Science covers genetic testing, a paper from Helicos, and the first North Americans.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[And, Just When You Thought You Knew What Cloud Computing Was]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Make way for stream computing, a new way to process data in real-time.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Does Evolution Need to Evolve?]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger investigates the marriage of evolution and complex systems.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[It's Easier Said Than Done, Especially When Your Grant is Less Than Last Year]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Don't rush into publishing, grad students blog.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[A Modest Proposal for Synthetic Bio]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger suggests some improvements to BioBricks.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[You Know, Beyond Using Twitter to Kill Time Between Experiments]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Researchers weigh in on how social media can help science.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[When You Shed DNA, Do You Shed Your Right to Privacy Too?]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[NYT reports on the growing trend of taking DNA samples from suspected criminals without their knowledge.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146068-1.html</link>
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         <description><![CDATA[This week, Nature reports on surrogate biomarkers, lung cancer SNPs, cancer biomarkers, and more.]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[New York will host a World Science Festival in May.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[At Least Something Good Came Out of Those Hedge Funds]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[WSJ reports on the winner of the first annual Gotham Prize for Cancer Research.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Predicting New Regulatory Requirements? There's a Game We Wouldn't Want to Play]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[23andMe switches to a 'high-complexity' CLIA-certified lab for testing results.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/146042-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[What's on the Inside]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger posts a protocol to detect cloned inserts.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[If You Liked MIAME, You'll Love...]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger writes about day one of the first MIBBI conference, held at EBI.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Listen to the Talking Heads]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Diane Rehm hosts Francis Collins, George Church, Linda Avey, and Beth Peshkin.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Seek and You Shall Receive Many Emails]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The NIH asks for input on their new public access policy.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Mapping Chromatin in the Fruit Fly]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Researchers assemble a genome-wide map of Drosophila chromatin organization.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Maybe He Could Solve That Data Management Problem]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[An 11-year-old becomes his school's new network administrator.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Free Your Mind]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Brain doping, going back in time, it's all good fun.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Although, Aren't Managers Supposed to Make More Money?]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger writes about management training for scientists.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[We Just Never Thought Facebook Was Coming to Work With Us]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[An IT advisor says we should brace ourselves for a web 2.0-driven shift in how organizations function.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[GWAS: The Glory! The Hype! We've Got It All]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Mainstream media's loving genome-wide association studies, but a blogger voices concerns over their scientific foundation.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[It's More a Crash-Course, On-the-Job Training Thing]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger muses on training for reviewing papers and grants.]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[A blogger shows how to optimize sequence alignment techniques.]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[A blogger talks about the trickiness of using RNAi as therapy.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Looks Like We Can't Sweep That Under the Rug]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Scientists find genetic traces of the crusades in the Middle Eastern population.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Because Everyone Likes a Family Tree]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Are you a novice to phylogenetic trees? Here's a beginner's guide to making your own.]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[This week in Science there's gene expression, mutations and schizophrenia, genome-wide association studies, and more.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[And We Thought ASP Went Out With the Dot-coms]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger tries out a new plugin software, Zemanta.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Now This Just Takes All the Fun Out of Writing Microsoft-Hacking Widgets]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Microsoft launches a module that converts Word documents into XML format for database archiving.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Jockeying for the Limelight Can Be a Contact Sport]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger says scientists can get swept up in scientific fads or promoting their work.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Open Peer Review Is One Thing, But This Is Ridiculous]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[It's not looking good for Pfizer and its attempts to force journals to turn over the names of peer reviewers -- and that's making a lot of scientists very happy.]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[This week's Nature reports on iPS cells, hematopoietic stem cells, translation, and more.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[It's a Far Cry from the Race to Patent Genes a Decade Ago]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Alnylam's John Maraganore pens an op-ed piece in the Boston Globe about threats to biomedical patents.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/145876-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Spit in a Cup, Find New Friends]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Up next for 23andMe customers: social networking based on DNA.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/145877-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Guide to Genomic Research Ethics]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[This week's PLoS Biology includes a consensus statement on ethics in whole-genome research.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/145878-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Freeing the Data]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Bloggers discuss structuring data.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/145879-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Mapping Methylation Across Cancers]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Researchers map methylation changes across many cancer types.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Division of Labor is Good]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger comments on opening up the TAIR database to the community. ]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[You Might Get Cutting-Edge Treatment, But We Might Lose Your Personal Data. Interested?]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The Washington Post reports that a stolen laptop contained unencrypted data from patients in clinical trials.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/145849-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[In the Early Adopter Race, It's Consumers vs. Physicians]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Personalized medicine in WSJ, but are consumers ready?]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Of Mice and MicroRNA]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Bloggers discuss the function of Lin-28, let7 in stem cells and cancer.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Robot: Not Just a Dance]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger lists the emotions that go along with writing a thesis.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/145852-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Chipping Away at Transcription]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Researchers use computational analyis to predict regulatory networks in macrophage activation.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[As Long as It Has a Catchy Name It'll Do Just Fine]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger works on his HapCluster association mapping software.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/145854-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[A Beetle Made Famous]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The red flour beetle gets its genome sequenced.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/145832-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[No Offense, Boss, But We're Glad We're Not in Texas]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger reports on a new Texas law requiring insurers to give employers access to their employees' medical records.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/145833-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Desperately Seeking Closure]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[DNA sampling is being used to identify victims of an Argentine dictatorship.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/145834-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Watermark Thing Was Cool, But This Sounds More Reliable]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Scientists develop vector signatures to identify engineered bacteria.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[We Never Guessed that Genomics Would Become a Recreational Activity]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The European Journal of Human Genetics has an editorial about recreational genomics.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Streaming Science: Keeping Tabs on Your Research]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger uses the RSS feed concept to keep track of his research activity, paper bibliography, and more.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[There's a Whole Lot of Difference in that 0.1 Percent]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Wall Street Journal covers human variation and genome-wide association studies.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/145803-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Consumer Genomics in the Big Apple]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Navigenics will kick off its genomics service next month in New York City.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[This Week in Science]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Science this week looks at structural biology, genetic causes of ALS and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and more. ]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/145806-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Need a Quick $1 Million? Have We Got a Plan for You]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A small tech company offers a $1 million prize to programmers for building apps for its natural-language processing tool.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/145773-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[From the Belly of the Beast]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[In an admittedly self-promotional context, 23andMe employees describe what it's like to work at the startup.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/145774-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Try Dealing with US Health Insurers and You Might Change Your Mind]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger highlights the dissenting voice of a scientist who opposes GINA.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Bioinformatics Loses the Sexy Factor, But Still Gets Play]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The Google Summer of Code will include a number of bioinformatics apps.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Then There's the Unique Species that Lives inNew York City Subways]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A biologist analyzes DNA from dozens of rats to establish ancestry, according to this Economist article.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[This Week in Nature]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[This week's Nature has water, stem cells banks, new synthetic catalysts, and more.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/145778-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Remembering a Sci Fi Legend]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Arthur C. Clarke dies at the age of 90.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Don't Stress Me Out, Dude. My Genes Can't Take It]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A study suggests that there's a genetic component to PTSD.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Brace Yourselves: The 1,000 Genomes Project Is Underway]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger says that WashU started its work for the 1,000 Genomes Project this week.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Perhaps They'll Start Giving Infectious Disease Grants, Too]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Google's nonprofit division aims to use data sharing to fight infectious disease.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Knight of the Zinc Fingers]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Zinc-finger nucleases show efficiency in targeting genes and turning them off.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[A New Appreciation for Error Rates]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger notes that error rates in next-gen sequencing highlight the need for far more data.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Now They Just Need to Fund a Programming Overhaul for Vista]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Microsoft and Intel have teamed up to fund research at Berkeley for new programming approaches with multicore chips.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[We May Be Going in a Handbasket, But It'll Be a Fun Ride]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Recently condemned bloggers are having fun with their lists of deadly sins.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Good Thing We Didn't Know About This on St. Patrick's Day]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A new study says that the difference between successful scientists and the rest of them can all be traced back to beer.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Wonders of Delegating]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Scientists find a novel antibiotic by getting bacteria to produce it for them.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[If You're Sick of Craig, Skip to the Next Post]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[From the TED2008 meeting, Craig Venter's talk on synthetic bio and next-gen biofuels.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[And People Who Paid $350K Would Have Serious Buyer's Remorse]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[If $1,000 genomes were possible, this blogger says it would make a world of difference in finding rare variants.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Someday Students Will Ask What a 'Paper Trail' Was]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger says labs are embracing digital notebooks, and for good reason.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[No Evidence, Though, That Anyone Was Listening]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Bill Gates headed to Congress to sound the alarm that the US won't keep up with international progress in science and technology without major investment in research and education.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Where Would We Be Without Accidental Discoveries?]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Chinese authorities make a statement to encourage scientific creativity.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Don't Forget, Make the Software Platform-Independent]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The ISCB revises its policy statement on bioinformatics software availability.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Finally, An Instruction Manual (Sort Of)]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Blaine Bettinger has written an e-book on how to interpret your DNA test results.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[And Praying to the God of Technology is Bad Because...?]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger remembers life without computers.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[When's the Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony?]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Navigenics may be launching soon.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[This Week in Science]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[This issue of Science looks at potentially fraudulent papers, graduate fellowships, scaffold proteins and pathways, and more.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[This Week in Nature]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[This week in Nature there's university patents, the SATB1 breast cancer gene, methylation in Arabidopsis, and more.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[What Would the Street View Version Look Like?]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A tool can zoom in on bacterial genomes.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[We'll Fund You When You're Older]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger discusses why young investigators can't get funded.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[A Fight Worth Watching: Systems Biology vs. Metastates]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[MIT begins construction on the Institute for Integrative Cancer Research.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Calling for an Explanation]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Several bloggers ask, 'What went wrong at Proteomics?']]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Tracking SNPs Back in Time]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Researchers follow up on SNPs associated with obesity in children.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Taking the 'Identical' Out of Identical Twins]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Epigenetics and CNVs makes twins not so identical.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Showing the Money]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[HHMI announces new funds for young investigators.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[At 17, We Were Worried About Our Prom Dates]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Intel Science Talent Search winner predicts cancer recurrence.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Ah, Genetic Gobbledygook, We Have a Test For That]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[British pathologists call for regulation of at-home test kits.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Comparing Transcriptomes Just Got Easier]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Researchers use a gene chip to do comparative trascriptomics.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[While That Experiment Runs, Make a Video]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger posts lab-based entertainment.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Re-Writing Grants is Not the Same as Curing Disease]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A new report casts a dark light on the future of biomedical research in the US.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[As We Recall, Making a Volcano Was Pretty Cool]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Girls do like science, a study says.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Our Science Fair Project Revolved Around Trying Not to Set the Building on Fire]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[High schoolers learn sequencing and bioinformatics, thanks to a program at Rutgers University.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[In This Case, Being Lucky Takes a Whole Lot of Work]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Richard Silverman got lucky, says this article.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Do People Still Get Gout?]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Two papers find genetic variation associated with several diseases, including gout.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Where Does One Find Bedtime Stories About Evolution?]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Parents should teach their children evolution earlier.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Sin of Biology Lab]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Genetic experimentation is among the new deadly sins.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Expensive and Useless. Great.]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A study finds if evidence that genomic profiles are useful for measuring risk of common diseases or for making lifestyle choices.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Old Life Isn't Fair Thing Pops to Mind]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Neil Saunders wonders how academic institutions gauge output.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[This Week in Science]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Science covers corn genomes, oncogenes and DNA damage, Science 2.0, and more.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Let's Hope This Vampire Doesn't Live Forever]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[An op-ed piece criticizes expensive academic journals.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[See, Recycling is Good for Bioinformatics, Too!]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A bioinformaticist uses BioRuby on the EBI database.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Sound of a Bubble Bursting]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger notes deCode's layoff and the changing personal genomics market.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Never Mind Fingerprints, Here Are Genome-prints]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Olivia Judson blogs about estimating genome size in fossils.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[This Week in Nature]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Nature includes breast cancer epigenetics, a fungal genome, and more.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[No Rest for the Dead (and Excommunicated)]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Scientists want to exhume the remains of Galileo to perform DNA testing.]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[A blogger covers two apps for mining PubMed data.]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[This summer, 16 biologists and philosophers will get together to brainstorm a new theory of evolution.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[How to Make the Most of the Time Before Google Scholar Takes Over]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Bitesize Bio offers tips for getting more useful search results from PubMed.]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[Researchers study how miRNAs recognize their targets.]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[Blogger Deepak Singh praises the Semantic Web.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[If You've Accepted Your Fate as a Postdoc, 'Best Place' May Not Help Much]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The Scientist releases its annual survey of the best places to work for postdocs.]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[New York Times has an article on Knome's first customer, who paid $350,000 to have his genome sequenced.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[So Much For Eating Right]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Researchers report on IGF1's impact on human lifespan.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Day is Nigh]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A white paper discusses how to manage copyright and comply with NIH's Open Access policy.]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[A blogger discusses organizing bioinformatics scripts.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Craig Venter (Here to Save the World)]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Venter announces a plan to create an organism that produces fuel.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/145423-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[He's a DNA Exhibitionist -- for Your Benefit]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger releases the results of his 23andMe DNA test.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA['Reproducibility' Is Just Another Word for Boring]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A study on obesity can't replicate variant effect.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[At Last, a Scientific Way to Evaluate Hype]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A computational biologist releases a tool to track buzzwords.]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[In this issue, Science discusses science education in Florida, NIH, synthetic genomes, and more.]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[WSJ reports on positive clinical trial news from Alnylam.]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[Bloomberg reports that Google is supporting George Church's Personal Genome Project.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[It Turns Out We're Not All the Same]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Researchers find that genetic variation between different races contributes to differences in disease susceptibility.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[There Will Be Reveling in Madison Tonight]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The USPTO upholds a stem cell patent.]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[Nature this week researches MS, malaria, apomeiosis in crop plants, and more.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Sad News from NCI]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Bob Welch, operations director of NCI's Core Genotyping Facility, died Saturday.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Even Tinfoil Hats Can't Protect You From This]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[An article in the Guardian warns that a DNA biobank could increase (yes, increase) the number of wrongful convictions.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Strive to Do Your Worst]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[John Halamka lists 10 ways to be a bad CIO -- and it's sound advice for anyone in management.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[That's Because Risk Is Small and Inertia Is Great]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger writes about relative risk and genetics.]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[A blogger notes that James Watson has contributed to Barack Obama's campaign.]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[FDA's Andrew von Eschenbach says that FDA will need an overhaul and serious investment to keep up with its mandate.]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[A blogger reviews tenure statistics.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[This Bioinformatics Thing Could Be a Keeper]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger uses BioPerl to map amino acids to their gene location.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[But Are They Sure He'll Feel Comfortable Voicing His Opinions?]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[PLoS Biology announces its first academic editor-in-chief, Jonathan Eisen.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Fish Gotta Swim and Birds Gotta Fly -- and They've All Gotta Be Catalogued]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The first installment of the Encyclopedia of Life will go live on Thursday.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Matchmaking Service Needed for Tumors and Treatments]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Brigham and Women's Hospital researchers used 454's technology to study mesothelioma.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Ah, The Sweet Smell of Agarose]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Bloggers discuss obsolete lab techniques.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Cloud Computing For All]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Google partners with the NSF on the Academic Cluster Computing Initiative.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Put Your John Hancock Right Here]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger makes the case for naming reviewers on papers.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Next Thing You Know They'll Be Wrapping the Tests in Brown Paper]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The New York Times reports on patients' reluctance to take genetic tests for fear of discrimination.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Of Human Rights and Rattlesnakes (and Microbes)]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Jonathan Eisen blogs about the statistics used in human rights cases and microbial ecology.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[They Both Have "Me" In The Name, Too]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A doctor evaluates the 23andMe and DecodeMe testing services.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Congratulations, Biofuels: You're Popular Enough to Warrant Your Own Regulations]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The G8 adopts stricter standards for producing biofuels.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[When Daddy Dearest Has His Doubts]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[DNA research pays off -- as long as paternity testing is what you had in mind.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Oh, Good. Another Domain We've Lost Out to Computers]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Computer bioimaging techniques trump current standards for diagnosing Alzheimer's.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[All Roads Lead to the Lamprey]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Researchers link miRNAs to vertebrate evolution.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[This Week in Science]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[This issue of Science covers Pfizer's legal tactics, a potential cancer virus, and more.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Because All They Really Needed Was a Good Argument from a Newsweekly]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The Economist makes the case for GMO crops in GM-unfriendly Europe.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Remembering Ray Wu, DNA Sequencing Pioneer]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Ray Wu, whose work helped shape Sanger sequencing, dies at 79.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[A Bush Bioethics Advisor Explains His Thinking. Such as It Is.]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Discover bills this Q&amp;A as "a chat with George W. Bush's conscience." Put your fear aside and check it out.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Long Arm of Google]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Google launches its health records management system.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[You Could Always Start Buying Blinders in Bulk]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Janet Stemwedel discusses how to stand up to unethical behavior.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[This Week in Nature]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Nature this week offers insight into heart disease, worldwide genetic variation, Star-PAP in oxidative stress, and more.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Follow-On to the Follow-On to the Follow-On to 23andMe]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Another company launches a personal genomics service.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Straight from the Horse's Mouth (Sorry, Drew)]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Drew Endy stars in a new video on synthetic biology.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Arguments You Don't Hear Every Day: Stop Using Your Wealth for Good]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A muckety-muck at the World Health Organization complains that the Gates Foundation is investing too much money in malaria research.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Not God-like, But Still to be Worshipped]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Craig Venter denies having a God complex.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Just Take a Look Around the Room]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger characterizes the audience at departmental seminars.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Survival Through Genomic Shapeshifting]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Researchers find variation in the genome of Pseudomonas aeruginosa.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Now They Just Have to Upgrade Their Voting Machines]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Florida votes to approve new public school science education standards.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Because Textbooks Always Lacked That Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[YouTube has an array of videos on genetic conditions.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[We Knew Those Genome-wide Association Studies Were Bad News]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A study indicates that people are more likely to cheat if they think their behavior is predetermined by genetic factors.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[But Why Settle for Being Great When You Could Be Wonderful?]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A computational biologist offers advice for being a great scientist.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[And Then, Doctor, I'd Like You to Engineer Some New Kidneys for Me]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger considers the path to personalized medicine from an engineering point of view.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Of Spuds and Slingshots]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[BASF plans for a GM crop in Britain, but a protest is in full force.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Open Access Rocks On]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Shortly after Harvard announced its open access policy, the University of Oregon did the same.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[This Just In: Venter Is Actually Not God]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A bioethicist writes an essay explaining that Venter's latest accomplishment is not the same as creating life. In case you were wondering.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Give Us Your Sequence Data and Nobody Gets Hurt]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Steve Salzberg says the CDC needs to release influenza sequence data so scientists can help make flu vaccines better.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Hey, David Downer: Next Time, Try Some Optimism]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[David Baltimore tells the AAAS crowd that development on an HIV vaccine has stalled.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Tune in for Your Daily Pollution Report on Smog, Ozone ... and DNA?]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Discover offers an article on drug-resistant bacteria and the DNA tricks that give rise to them.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Great Science Means Leaving the Car at Home and Walking to Work Instead]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger says great scientists in the past had an asset we don't: time to think.]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[Science this week goes gonzo, and also includes mitochondrial DNA mutations and more.]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[In Nature this week, there's George Church, cohesin protein, stem cells, and more.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Harvard Leads the Way in Open Access]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Harvard passes a measure to publish its researchers' academic papers on the Internet.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Valentine's Day, Ivy League-Style]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Harvard professors and students are throwing a "Science is Sexy" party.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Is Drug Discovery Really Like Playing Poker?]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger ponders activity-based protein profiling.]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[NBC tackles genetic testing.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[And Here's the Retraction]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The journal Proteomics retracts the "mighty creator" paper.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Career Advice From a Bioinformaticist]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A bioinformaticist takes questions.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Quantitative Phosphoproteomics: Don't Try Saying This at Home]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Researchers decipher the tyrosine-phosphoproteome of the insulin signaling pathway.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[But, We Already Knew Life Was Complex]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger explores the systems biology behind biological complexity.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[For the Newbies Out There]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A videoblog looks at Blast.]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[A professor and his dog discuss evolution.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Will SNP Tests Go the Way of the CRT Monitor?]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger warns about the accuracy of SNP chip genotyping.]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[It's Charles Darwin's birthday.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Big Question is, Will Joe Shmoe Tune In?]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Andy Revkin talks about the Science Debate 2008.]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[deCODE is second in line to launch a genetic test for prostate cancer.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Fireworks on the Beach? Guess They're Officially Out of Stealth Mode]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The New York Times highlights Pacific Biosciences' sequencing technology.]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[Researchers discover a new HIV receptor.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Passing of Frank Dixon]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The founder of the Scripps Research Institute dies.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[That PSA Test Is So, Well, Last Century]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A study finds seven new genes associated with prostate cancer.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/144979-1.html</link>
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         <description><![CDATA[A blogger ponders the digital divide.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/144980-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Now That's a Lot of Candles]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A British newspaper celebrates the 150th anniversary of Darwin's theory of natural selection.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[It's Like Wikipedia, But For Protein Geeks]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Akhilesh Pandey announced the Human Proteinpedia.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/144942-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[This Week in Science]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[This issue of Science focuses on cities, the US science budget, dwarfism, and more.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[But, Mom, I Didn't Want to Be a Model AND an Olympic Gold Medalist]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The book, Babies by Design, comes out in Britain.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Genetic Testing Fray Keeps Growing]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Three new companies offer genetic tests for mental illness.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/144945-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[But Acid Stains on Our Lab Notebooks Felt So...Adventurous]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger approves of digital lab notebooks.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/144946-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Aww, Thanks Jonathan]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Jonathan Eisen parties at Marco Island.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/144950-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Attending This Conference Is a Contact Sport]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Thanks to the burst of interest in sequencing, the AGBT conference opens with a record-breaking crowd.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Down This Dark Alley, That's Where You Get Your Genotyping Results]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The legality of direct-to-consumer testing may vary by state.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/144916-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Ah, the Celestial Proteome]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The journal Proteomics includes a paper that supports for "a mighty creator."]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/144918-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[This Week in Nature]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Nature this week discusses the Science Debate 2008, future technologies, resurrected bacteria, and more.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[It's Probably Because They Don't Feel Grown-Up Either]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Janet Stemwedel blogs about the transition from student scientist to "grown-up" scientist.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/144889-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Does Anyone Really Understand 'Spooky Action at a Distance'?]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger ponders the public understanding of science currently and throughout history.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/144890-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Plant Phylogeny Made Easy (Sort of)]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Researchers locate a barcode gene for plants.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/144891-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[And We Thought They Were a One-Trick Pony]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[miRNAs can induce gene expression, researchers find.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[This You Need Authority to Do]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The White House wants to increase FDA's funding and give it more authority.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/144859-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[We Have Wondered About the Gene Pool that Led to Chris Rock]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[PBS has a series on ancestry that makes use of DNA and historical records.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Remembering Joshua Lederberg]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A Nobel Laureate dies.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Plus It Sounds Cuter Than 'Science 2.0']]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger hopes "bursty work" can be applied to scientific research.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Disproving Mendel, Reproving Mendel -- We're Tired Just From Reading About It]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The Scientist revisits a 2005 paper that would have changed the rules of Mendelian inheritance.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/144863-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[But All the Cool (Rich) Kids Are Doing It]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Hsien-Hsien Lei blogs about why she thinks someone would not want their DNA sequenced.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[But What We Really Want Is a Guide on How to Think, Period]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has series on "How to Think About Science."]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[A Tour of the History of Genetics]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Diana Bianchi chronicles the rise of genetics.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[For GWAS, Collaboration is the Future]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[GSK and the MRC pool resources to focus on GWAS for depression and obesity.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[If Four Across Spells Venter, We're Not Playing This Game]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger wonders what words the genome encodes.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Strangely, He Didn't Dwell on Those Dolly Droppings]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger recounts his visit to the Wellcome Collection.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[This Week in Science]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Science covers cell biology, shRNA, and more in this week's issue.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[We Shudder to Think of the Peer Review Process]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A new journal for creationist scientists publishes its first issue.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Alphabet Just Got 50 Percent Bigger]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Researchers create two new artificial DNA base pairs.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/144806-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[We Always Wondered About Klumpfuss and Bride of Sevenless]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Mark Gerstein and colleagues have a paper in Genome Biology on genetic nomenclature.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/144758-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Genomic Graffiti]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Watermarks in DNA won't last forever.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/144759-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[I Give You Sophophora Melanogaster]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Drosophila melanogaster gets a new name.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/144760-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[This Week in Nature]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Nature this week has GWAS, gold nanoparticles, cis-regulatory elements, and more.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/144761-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[But They Say Only Good Things Come in Small Packages]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[An article stresses how little we know about the health effects of nanoparticles.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/144762-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[One Day, Your Conference Badge Will Do the Networking for You]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Technology Review has an article about conference badges with infrared sensors that are helping scientists track and understand social interactions.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/144722-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[That's "Virtuous," Not "Vicious"]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger envisions translational medicine as a "virtuous circle."]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/144723-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[What Kind of Bioinformaticist Are You?]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[It's like a Cosmo quiz, but for bioinformatics. Enjoy.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/144724-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[New Book Idea: Idiot's Guide to DIY SNP Analysis]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger looks at databases to decipher your personal SNP information.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/144725-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[And Yes, It Is Still Surprising to Find Him Saying Not-Quite-True Things]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[President Bush revisits the failed American Competitive Initiative in his State of the Union address.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/144726-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Funding Woes]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger looks at funding in the sciences.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/144692-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Not Arrogant. Not at All]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Wired uncovers what the watermarks in Craig Venter's synthetic genome say.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/144693-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Who's Up for the 10,000 Genomes Project?]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger approves of the 1,000 Genomes Project.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/144696-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[In a Search Tool, Being Plain is a Good Thing]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Jane is a search tool to find articles and authors of interest.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Darwin's Islands Succumb to Darwin's Theory]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The Gal&#x00E1;pagos Islands cope with an influx of tourists.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[That's What You Call a Double Whammy]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger points to a news story to suggest why doing experiments under real-world conditions is important.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/144676-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Using Computing Power to Cure Cancer]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The Cancer Institute of New Jersey receives funding for phase two of the 'Help Defeat Cancer' project.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/144677-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[We Laughed, We Groaned. Thanks, Microsoft]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Microsoft's antics are always good for a laugh, and this time GTO just had to share.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/144641-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[And Still a Quarter of Them Believe the Sun Revolves Around the Earth. Ouch.]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Steven Salzberg blogs about the latest findings in a study of how well people know their basic science.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/144642-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Special Data Needs Special Treatment]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger points out the ethical challenges of whole genome sequencing.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[This Week in Science]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The Max Planck Institutes, aligning genomes, synthetic genomes, and more.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/144648-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[This Time It's Good to Reinvent the Wheel]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Developers create the mitoWheel.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/144649-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Your Idea of a Work-Appropriate Outfit Involves a Hazmat Suit]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Everybody should start the day with a good laugh. This blog post delivers.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/144612-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[This Would've Been a Much Less Pleasant Topic in 2003]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A LinkedIn discussion centers on whether bioinformatics is still a viable business model or career choice.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Can You Ever Just Be Whelmed?]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[David Hamilton is underwhelmed by DecodeMe's services.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/144614-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Or A Trip to Disney World]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[An article discusses how to reward innovation.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/144615-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[This Week in Nature]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[This week in Nature there's Google.org, duplication in science research, transposons, and more.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Trial and Error Part is Depressing Enough]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Researchers pinpoint a gene that makes antidepressants less effective for some people.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Because the Nose Knows]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[DNA finds utility as an odor detector.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/144584-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[What Is Personalized Medicine? For This Guy, It's Being Happy as a Vegan]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[PGP member John Halamka reviews what he's learned from the project so far.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/144585-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Now Even the Hoi Polloi Are Being Sequenced. Sigh.]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[News of the '1,000 Genomes' project stirs the blogosphere.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/144586-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[From BigCo to TinyCo: How to Succeed at a Pint-Sized Company]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Derek Lowe blogs about dealing with a move from big pharma to a very small company.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[For All the Hopeful Monsters Out There]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger discusses Richard Goldschmidt.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[23andMe to GMO: Now We Know How You Feel]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A personal genome company launches in skeptical Europe; a user makes a genome browser.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Perhaps You Should Have Considered a Career as a Secretary or a Nurse]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Bloggers wonder if there is a bias against women in the sciences.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Bringing Out the Mouse's Inner Bat]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Thanks to mice, researchers find evidence for the evolution of the bat wing.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[No Doubt Nature and Science Will Relish Their New Roles]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A blogger looks toward the future of open science and open access publishing.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Lessons from Kindergarten that Still Make Sense: Share and Share Alike]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A biostatistician argues that cancer data should be freely shared to speed progress toward better treatment.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/144563-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Genetic Links for Lupus]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Scientists find genes implicated in lupus.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/blog/general/144534-1.html</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[We Lik