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Blood test tells gender of fetus early as 5 weeks

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A [polymorphism] can only be used as a fetal marker if it is absent from the maternal genome,” Scheffer explained. “If it is then found in the maternal plasma, its origin has to be fetal” and inherited from the father. If polymorphisms matched ...http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34471795/ns/health-pregnancy/

First gene maps created for 2 deadly cancers

What we are seeing today is going the transform the way that we see cancer," Mike Stratton of the Sanger Institute's cancer genome project told a briefing in London. "We have never seen cancer revealed in this form before." The scientists sequenced ...http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34449054

Effects wow, but story in ‘Avatar’ is unsatisfying

His scientist twin brother has just died and Sully, having a matching genome, is invited to replace him in a mission to Pandora. He joins a small group of scientists lead by Dr. Grace Augustine (Sigourney Weaver) who are attempting to learn more ...http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34378459/

Decade of science highs and lows

First up is our own list of the top 10 science stories of the decade , stretching from the unveiling of the human genome in 2001 to this year's revelations about water ice on the moon. Between those bookends is the decade's biggest scientific downer ...http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/12/18/2156624.aspx

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