David Ewing Duncan has a piece in Portfolio.com about Complete Genomics, a DNA sequencing company that launched back in October promising to offer whole-genome sequencing for $5000 by mid-2009.
Complete Genomics is based on some allegedly powerful new technology (here’s a cartoon summary) developed in-house - I say “allegedly” because the company is yet to release […]

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I have been meaning to talk about this story, but I have been busy.
A study in Nature looked for genes linked with “common” obesity (more on that in a moment), and it was one of the first to link genes to the disease. Turns out several are genes expressed in the brain:
A genetic study of […]

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