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http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/14/microsoft-office-mobile-for-iphone-hands-on

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://techcrunch.com/2013/03/05/picasa-web-albums-are-officially-dead-now-redirect-to-google-photos/

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324063304578522812684722382.html

http://www.sanger.ac.uk/about/press/2012/120613.html
Tracking MRSA in real time
Study highlights benefits of rapid whole-genome sequencing

Press Release about HELA genome, which came out before all the controversy

http://www.embl.de/aboutus/communication_outreach/media_relations/2013/130311_Heidelberg/index.html Havoc in biology’s most-used human cell line – Press Release Heidelberg, 11 March 2013

In a nutshell:
• Scientists deliver the first high-resolution sequence of HeLa cells, a key research tool for human disease and general biology
• Sequence analysis reveals the full extent to which HeLa cells are different to the Human Genome Project reference
• Resource could enhance the quality of research using HeLa cells

http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/15/the-secret-science-behind-big-data-and-word-of-mouth

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/14/us/supreme-court-rules-human-genes-may-not-be-patented.html

Great primer on network theory MT @russskinner PRISM… analysis: Paul Revere identified by his connections to others http://bit.ly/11DK8R9
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/06/prism_metadata_analysis_paul_revere_identified_by_his_connections_to_other.single.html

The link to the “official NIH ENCODE 2 press release” below: http://www.genome.gov/27549810

This has the substitution of the easier to understand word function for biological activity….