Consortium News
December 2009
Medical Research Council chief to step down
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Early exit for Leszek Borysiewicz.
Diagnosing the future of genomics
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The new director of the US National Human Genome Research Institute, Eric Green, talks about his priorities for the future.
Biologists turn against worm
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Growing numbers of researchers are abandoning the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans in search of alternative model organisms.
Plant genetics database at risk as funds run dry
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US National Science Foundation (NSF) will phase out funding for the world's most valued plant database — the Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR).
Flu-virus prevalence comes under scrutiny
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Researchers are monitoring H1N1 antibodies to find out how many people have been, and are being, infected in the current pandemic.