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http://m.guardiannews.com/uk/2013/jun/16/gchq-intercepted-communications-g20-summits

http://www.biotechniques.com/news/Up-In-The-Sky-Its-Super-Enhancers/biotechniques-343598.html#.Ub59JPaG1A9

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/346318841367908352
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/18/science/poking-holes-in-the-privacy-of-dna.html

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June 16, 2013
Poking Holes in Genetic Privacy
By GINA KOLATA

Not so long ago, people who provided DNA in the course of research studies were told that their privacy was assured. Their DNA sequences were on publicly available Web sites, yes, but they did not include names or other obvious identifiers. These were research databases, scientists said, not like the forensic DNA banks being gathered by the F.B.I. and police departments.
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Experts were startled by what Dr. Erlich had done. “We are in what I call an awareness moment,” said Eric D. Green, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health.

Research subjects who share their DNA may risk a loss of not just their own privacy but also that of their children and grandchildren, who will inherit many of the same genes, said Mark B. Gerstein, a Yale professor who studies large genetic databases.
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Accounting for mutational heterogeneity in identifying cancer genes… MutSigCV by @broadinstitute via @notSoJunkDNA: http://bit.ly/14EPvVx http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature12213.html doi:10.1038/nature12213

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/business/a-wearable-alert-to-head-injuries-in-sports.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/magazine/say-hello-to-the-100-trillion-bacteria-that-make-up-your-microbiome.html?emc=eta1&pagewanted=all Say Hello to the 100 Trillion Bacteria That Make Up Your Microbiome BY MICHAEL POLLAN
Medicine used to be obsessed with eradicating the tiny bugs that live within us. Now we?re beginning to understand all the ways they keep us healthy.

http://nyti.ms/18KwqTB
Say Hello to the 100 Trillion Bacteria That Make Up Your Microbiome BY MICHAEL POLLAN
Medicine used to be obsessed with eradicating the tiny bugs that live within us. Now we?re beginning to understand all the ways they keep us healthy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/14/us/supreme-court-rules-human-genes-may-not-be-patented.html Interestingly, there is a BRCA1 pseudogene in the human genome. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19067158/
Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics
http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-398_1b7d.pdf
“cDNA is not a ‘product of nature,’ so it is patent eligible under US code section 101. cDNA does not present the same obstacles to patentability as naturally occurring, isolated DNA segments. Its creation results in an exons-only molecule, which is not naturally occurring. Its order of the exons may be dictated by nature, but the lab technician unquestionably creates something new when introns are removed from a DNA sequence to make cDNA.”

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324049504578542784226200000.html?mod=e2tw#articleTabs%3Darticle

http://allthingsd.com/20130614/microsoft-brings-office-365-to-apples-iphone