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The rise and fall and rise again of 23andMe

How Anne Wojcicki led her company from the brink of failure to scientific pre-eminence.

News | 12 October 2017
FDA advisers back gene therapy for rare form of blindness
Therapy that targets disease-causing mutations could become the first of its kind approved for use in the United States.
Comment | 11 October 2017
The future of DNA sequencing
Eric D. Green, Edward M. Rubin and Maynard V. Olson speculate on the next forty years of the applications, from policing to data storage.

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Prepare for larger, longer wildfires
Climate change makes land management more urgent than ever, says Kathie Dello.
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Global networks of small telescopes will chase companion signals of gravitational waves
Seeing cosmic events is one thing, but what if you could hear them and taste them, too?
News | 12 October 2017
Male scientists share more — but only with other men
Evolutionary differences blamed for squeezing out female researchers.
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European Medicines Agency chief raises alarm at forced relocation
Guido Rasi says that ensuring the safety of drugs could be compromised.
News | 12 October 2017
European drug regulation at risk of stalling as agency prepares to leave London
Post-Brexit plans to relocate the European Medicines Agency could trigger severe staff losses, its head has warned.
News | 12 October 2017
FDA advisers back gene therapy for rare form of blindness
Therapy that targets disease-causing mutations could become the first of its kind approved for use in the United States.

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Research Highlights | 13 October 2017
Motor neuron disease: Peripheral immune cell levels correlate with disease progression in ALS
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Cancer cells recycle ammonia waste to grow
Tumours dodge toxic effects by turning the by-product into amino acids.
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Research Highlights | 13 October 2017
Non-small cell lung cancer: Where there's smoke...
A recent study shows that smoking-induced epigenetic changes in lung epithelium occur even before malignant transformation, and sensitize the cells to allow a single key oncogenic event to initiate the growth of a tumour.
- Ulrike Harjes
Nature Reviews Cancer

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