FromJune 26
The Weekly Scan: The deadline for complying with California's cease-and-desist letter, innovation in the US, epigenetics, young investigator Vince Magrini, and more.

FromJune 19
The Weekly Scan: California tells genetic testing companies to cease and desist, Bobby Jindal's genetics professor, the Google Code Jam, and more.

From June 12
The Weekly Scan: Celebrating Darwin, Agbio and preventing famine, the Finnish Millennium Technology Prize, and more.

FromJune 5
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FromMay 29
The Weekly Scan: VCU and Phillip Morris, the "female" genome, Homme Hellinga, human skin microbiome, and more

FromMay 22
The Weekly Scan: Google Health, short-read sequences, alignment tools, and more.

FromMay 15
The Weekly Scan: Regulation of personal genetics, Biology of Genomes, the platypus genome, being a good boss and more.

From May 8
The Weekly Scan: genetic testing oversight, the diseasome, magnetic nanoparticles, creationism, and more.

FromMay 1
The Weekly Scan: How to give a presentation, evolution, keeping U.S. universities competitive, DNA testing, and more.

FromApril 24
The Weekly Scan: WARF, cognition-enchancing drugs, appealing peer-review, Sydney Brenner, the young investigator of the week, and more.

FromApril 11
The Weekly Scan: Genome-wide association studies, DNA forensics, text mining PubMed, the young investigator of the week, and more.

FromApril 3
The Weekly Scan: 23andMe and CLIA, the Gotham Prize, how to make a phylogenetic tree, NIH's public access policy, and more.

From March 27
The Weekly Scan: Red flour beetle genome, 23andME, Navigenics, lost clinical trials data, semantic hacker challenge, and more.

From March 20
The Weekly Scan: New science in China, beer and your publishing career, Arthur C. Clarke, Bill Gates testifies before Congress, and more.

From March 13
The Weekly Scan: New Deadly Sins, Research on Identical Twins, DeCode Layoffs, Intel Science Search Winner, and more.

From March 6
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From February 28
The Weekly Scan: Bush's bioethics council chairman, Jonathan Eisen, Google Health, anonymous peer reviewers, and more.

From February 21
The Weekly Scan: Flu sequence data, WHO and malaria research, Harvard's open access measure, types of scientists, and more.

From February 14
The Weekly Scan: Retraction from Proteomics, Darwin Day, Prostate cancer news, Human Proteinpedia, PacBio, young investigator spotlight, and more.

From February 7
The Weekly Scan: Genomic graffiti, bursty work, Joshua Lederberg dead at 82, young investigator spotlight, and more.

From January 31
The Weekly Scan: Venter's secret messages, personal genomics, Microsoft security, careers in bioinformatics, and more.

From January 24
The Weekly Scan: PAG 2008, the 1,000 genome project, cancer data, conflict of interest and NIH, and more.

From January 17
The Weekly Scan: the $0 Genome Project, healthcare social networking site BioMedExperts, NSF's report about science and technology in the US, Republican presidential candidates, and more.

From January 10
The Weekly Scan: US presidential candidates, journal impact factors, social networking with DNA sequence, and more.

From December 20
The Weekly Scan: What genetic and genomic tests can tell you, the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine, Bruce Alberts, Martin Evans on science in the UK, end-of-the-year lists, and more.

From December 13
The Weekly Scan: James Watson is 16 percent African, presidential candidates and science, DNA-based dating, the incredible shrinking genome, and more.

From December 6
The Weekly Scan: More on stem cells, Knome, mutations in India, the FDA budget crunch, and more.

From November 29
The Weekly Scan: Stem cell advances, personal genomics companies, open access trends in journals, evolutionary biologists and extinct viruses, and more.

From November 15
The Weekly Scan: The NIH budget veto, Navigenics, poisonous mushrooms, intelligent design on PBS, and more.

From November 8
The Weekly Scan: The dandruff and cat genomes, why women leave science, a new science song, the UN's multilateral system program, genetic testing, young investigator Karl Deisseroth, and more.

From November 1
The Weekly Scan: More on James Watson, synthetic biology, HIV research, next-gen sequencers, and findings from the Neanderthal genome project.

From October 25
The Weekly Scan: More on James Watson, synthetic biology, HIV research, next-gen sequencers, and findings from the Neanderthal genome project.

From October 18
The Weekly Scan: James Watson puts his foot in his mouth, Newsweek's 21st Century Einsteins, private medical records online, young investigator Vamsi Mootha, and more.

From October 11
The Weekly Scan: the Nobel Prize and the Ig Noble Prize, blogging from conferences and conference etiquette, commenting on PLoS ONE, and more.

From October 4
The Weekly Scan: MacArthur genius awards, a Q&A with Jim Watson, Neanderthal wanderings, international math and science testing, career advice from Elias Zerhouni, genetic testing, and more.

From September 27
The Weekly Scan: Patent reform, therapeutic ignorance, pitfalls of personalized medicine, privacy and Google healthcare, and more.

From September 20
The Weekly Scan: Bike-powered computing, green science buildings, scarce funds and too many scientists, VC funding, junk DNA, and more.

From September 13
The Weekly Scan: Patent reform law, a honey bee virus, Elsevier tries open access, the UK Biobank, GTO's genome sequencing poll, and young investigator Marylyn Ritchie.

From August 30
The Weekly Scan: The open-access publishing debate, dangers of using Wi-Fi in the UK, DNA databanking, genomics and health insurance, the landscape for patent challenges, and young investigator Anne Carpenter.

From August 23
The Weekly Scan: Long author lists, consumer genotyping, hot job markets, scientific videocasts, the need for biology and computer skills, new CEGS, David Haussler, more.

From August 16
The Weekly Scan: Dangerous science jobs, open-access research, DNA comedy, Google Health, the TR35, questions about impact factors, and more.

From August 9: The Weekly Scan: Ancient microbes, evolution classes for doctors, open-access publishing problems, research funding from pharma, concerns over DNA databases, and more.

From August 2: In the Weekly Scan, the GTO team rounds up news and highlights from the past week.

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From July 19: In the Weekly Scan, the GTO team rounds up news and highlights from the past week.

From July 12: In the Weekly Scan, the GTO team rounds up news and highlights from the past week.

From July 5: In the Weekly Scan, the GTO team rounds up news and highlights from the past week.

From June 28: In the Weekly Scan, the GTO team rounds up news and highlights from the past week.

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