Consortium News
November 2010
1000 Genomes Project reveals human variation
Standfirst
An international effort to map variability in the genome hits its first landmark.
Gene therapy helps depressed mice
Standfirst
Revving up expression of a single gene in the brain reverses depression symptoms.
Cancer-gene testing ramps up
Standfirst
Thousands to get personalized medicine in Britain's National Health Service.
The renegade gene test
Standfirst
An open-source computer program flouts patents to test for cancer-causing gene mutations.
Stem-cell papers under suspicion
Standfirst
Duplicate plots may be at issue in a retracted stem-cell study.