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03 May, 2009

Nature Podcast

Posted by: ayasawada In: Climate Change| Genetics| Podcast| environment

On this week’s Nature Podcast, Adam, Kerri, Charlotte and the gang look at climate change: Nicholas Stern tells how the recession could help curb global warming, Nature’s climate science editor is in the studio to talk about the latest research, and scientists imagine what the world would look like in the worst-case scenario of 1000ppm [...]

09 Feb, 2009

Genome-wide studies reveal new heart disease genes

Posted by: ayasawada In: Genetics| News

By Mun-Keat Looi on the Wellcome Trust website.
Data from the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium (WTCCC) have helped uncover ten new genes linked with heart disease.
The findings, revealed through three genome-wide association studies published in ‘Nature Genetics’, demonstrate the value of large-scale genomic studies in discovering leads that could aid the development of new [...]