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page-content main-wrapper"> <div class="shadow-right">  <div id="main"> <div id="main-inside" class="clear-block">  <div id="primary-content"> <div class="blocks"> <h1 class="title archive-tag">Posts tagged <span class="altText">medicine</span></h1> <div class="divider"></div>  <div id="post-4300" class="hentry post post-1 odd author-nisselle category-insidecancer post_tag-cancer post_tag-dna post_tag-genes post_tag-genetic-screening post_tag-genomics post_tag-medicine post_tag-pharmacogenomics post_tag-treatment clear-block"> <a class="post-thumb size-post-thumbnail alignleft" href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2011/11/22/harnessing-the-power-of-bioinformatics-in-cancer-research/"><img width="100" height="100" src="http://blogs.dnalc.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/genetic-screening-primer-100x100.jpg" class="attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Genetic screening" /></a> <h2 class="title"><a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2011/11/22/harnessing-the-power-of-bioinformatics-in-cancer-research/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Harnessing the power of bioinformatics in cancer research">Harnessing the power of bioinformatics in cancer research</a></h2> <div class="post-date"> <p class="day">Nov 22nd</p> </div> <div class="post-info clear-block with-thumbs"> <p class="author alignleft">Posted by <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/author/nisselle/" title="Posts by Amy Nisselle ">Amy Nisselle</a> in <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/category/sitetopics/insidecancer/">Inside Cancer</a> </p> <p class="comments alignright"><a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2011/11/22/harnessing-the-power-of-bioinformatics-in-cancer-research/#comments" class="no comments">No comments</a></p> </div> <div class="post-content clear-block"> <p>One of the biggest challenges facing cancer researchers is that the disease varies so much from person to person. Even the same type of cancer – lung, brain, breast, colon, and so on – can be subtly different. This means that a therapy that works well in one patient may have no effect in another.</p> <p>So researchers in the UK brought in the big guns – <em><strong>bioinformatics</strong></em>.</p> <p>Cancer Research UK has set up seven British centers to start collecting 9,000 tumor samples from a wide range of cancer patients to create a DNA database. Researchers will extract DNA from these tumors and <a class="more-link" href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2011/11/22/harnessing-the-power-of-bioinformatics-in-cancer-research/">More ></a></p> </div> <div class="post-tags"> <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/cancer/" rel="tag" title="Cancer (25 topics)">Cancer</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/dna/" rel="tag" title="dna (36 topics)">dna</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/genes/" rel="tag" title="genes (11 topics)">genes</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/genetic-screening/" rel="tag" title="genetic screening (1 topics)">genetic screening</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/genomics/" rel="tag" title="genomics (5 topics)">genomics</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/medicine/" rel="tag" title="medicine (6 topics)">medicine</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/pharmacogenomics/" rel="tag" title="Pharmacogenomics (4 topics)">Pharmacogenomics</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/treatment/" rel="tag" title="treatment (10 topics)">treatment</a> </div> </div>   <div id="post-1493" class="hentry post post-2 even alt author-mckechni category-dnafromthebeginning post_tag-bacteria post_tag-biology post_tag-cockroach post_tag-medicine post_tag-microbes clear-block"> <a class="post-thumb size-post-thumbnail alignleft" href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2010/09/22/cockroach-brains-as-medicine/"><img width="100" height="100" src="http://blogs.dnalc.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/cockroach-150x150-100x100.jpg" class="attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="cockroach-150x150" /></a> <h2 class="title"><a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2010/09/22/cockroach-brains-as-medicine/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Cockroach Brains as Medicine">Cockroach Brains as Medicine</a></h2> <div class="post-date"> <p class="day">Sep 22nd</p> </div> <div class="post-info clear-block with-thumbs"> <p class="author alignleft">Posted by <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/author/mckechni/" title="Posts by Erin McKechnie ">Erin McKechnie</a> in <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/category/sitetopics/dnafromthebeginning/">DNA From The Beginning</a> </p> <p class="comments alignright"><a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2010/09/22/cockroach-brains-as-medicine/#comments" class="no comments">No comments</a></p> </div> <div class="post-content clear-block"> <p><a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/cockroach-150x150.jpg"></a>Each day your body works to defend you against invaders. Harmful bacteria, viruses, and fungi can enter your system and cause diseases. In addition to relying on your immune system, it is helpful to avoid contact with germs by thoroughly washing your hands and keeping your environment clean.</p> <p>How is it possible that some organisms have the ability to survive in some of the dirtiest places on earth? What survival mechanisms do they have that differ from ours?</p> <p>Scientists ground up the brains and other nerve tissues from two species of insects, the American cockroach and the desert locust. Material extracted from <a class="more-link" href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2010/09/22/cockroach-brains-as-medicine/">More ></a></p> </div> <div class="post-tags"> <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/bacteria/" rel="tag" title="bacteria (3 topics)">bacteria</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/biology/" rel="tag" title="biology (4 topics)">biology</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/cockroach/" rel="tag" title="cockroach (1 topics)">cockroach</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/medicine/" rel="tag" title="medicine (6 topics)">medicine</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/microbes/" rel="tag" title="microbes (1 topics)">microbes</a> </div> </div>   <div id="post-1172" class="hentry post post-3 odd author-connolly category-g2conline post_tag-autism post_tag-big-pharma post_tag-conspircay post_tag-lancet post_tag-medicine post_tag-pharmaceutical post_tag-profit post_tag-propaganda post_tag-science post_tag-vaccination post_tag-vaccine post_tag-wakefield clear-block"> <a class="post-thumb size-post-thumbnail alignleft" href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2010/02/08/autism-vaccine-link-finally-over/"><img width="100" height="100" src="http://blogs.dnalc.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Syringe-100x100.jpg" class="attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Syringe" /></a> <h2 class="title"><a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2010/02/08/autism-vaccine-link-finally-over/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: The Autism-Vaccine Link and Trusting Science">The Autism-Vaccine Link and Trusting Science</a></h2> <div class="post-date"> <p class="day">Feb 8th</p> </div> <div class="post-info clear-block with-thumbs"> <p class="author alignleft">Posted by <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/author/connolly/" title="Posts by connolly ">connolly</a> in <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/category/sitetopics/g2conline/">G2C Online</a> </p> <p class="comments alignright"><a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2010/02/08/autism-vaccine-link-finally-over/#comments" class="no comments">No comments</a></p> </div> <div class="post-content clear-block"> <p><a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Syringe.jpg"></a>Almost twelve years after its original publication, <em><a href="http://www.lancet.com/">The Lancet</a></em> medical journal has <a href="http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2810%2960175-7/fulltext">formally retracted the infamous paper by Andrew Wakefield and colleagues</a> that had posited a link between vaccines and autism. This follows a partial retraction in 2004, and succeeds the stern judgment by the UK General Medical Council’s Fitness to Practise Panel “that several elements of the 1998 paper by Wakefield <em>et. al. </em>are incorrect, contrary to the findings of an earlier investigation.”</p> <p>So that finally puts the autism-vaccination link to bed, right? Wrong. To read some responses in the blogosphere, one could assume that <em>The Lancet </em>had declared war on all <a class="more-link" href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2010/02/08/autism-vaccine-link-finally-over/">More ></a></p> </div> <div class="post-tags"> <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/autism/" rel="tag" title="autism (10 topics)">autism</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/big-pharma/" rel="tag" title="big pharma (1 topics)">big pharma</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/conspircay/" rel="tag" title="conspircay (1 topics)">conspircay</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/lancet/" rel="tag" title="lancet (1 topics)">lancet</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/medicine/" rel="tag" title="medicine (6 topics)">medicine</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/pharmaceutical/" rel="tag" title="pharmaceutical (1 topics)">pharmaceutical</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/profit/" rel="tag" title="profit (1 topics)">profit</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/propaganda/" rel="tag" title="propaganda (1 topics)">propaganda</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/science/" rel="tag" title="science (1 topics)">science</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/vaccination/" rel="tag" title="vaccination (1 topics)">vaccination</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/vaccine/" rel="tag" title="vaccine (3 topics)">vaccine</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/wakefield/" rel="tag" title="wakefield (1 topics)">wakefield</a> </div> </div>   <div id="post-381" class="hentry post post-4 even alt author-setton category-dnainteractive post_tag-drugs post_tag-genomics post_tag-hepatitis-c post_tag-medicine post_tag-personal-medicine post_tag-pesronal post_tag-pharmacogenetics post_tag-ribavarin clear-block"> <a class="post-thumb size-post-thumbnail alignleft" href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2009/10/15/pharmacowhat-pharmacogenetics/"><img width="100" height="100" src="http://blogs.dnalc.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/pharma-100x100.jpg" class="attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="pharma" /></a> <h2 class="title"><a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2009/10/15/pharmacowhat-pharmacogenetics/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Pharmacowhat? Pharmacogenetics!">Pharmacowhat? Pharmacogenetics!</a></h2> <div class="post-date"> <p class="day">Oct 15th</p> </div> <div class="post-info clear-block with-thumbs"> <p class="author alignleft">Posted by <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/author/setton/" title="Posts by Tedi Setton ">Tedi Setton</a> in <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/category/sitetopics/dnainteractive/">DNA Interactive</a> </p> <p class="comments alignright"><a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2009/10/15/pharmacowhat-pharmacogenetics/#comments" class="no comments">No comments</a></p> </div> <div class="post-content clear-block"> <p><a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/pharma.jpg"></a>Your genes affect not only how you look and your predisposition to disease, but it would appear that they also affect your responsiveness to different drug treatments following disease onset.</p> <p>In the emerging field of pharmacogenetics, scientists study genome variations and correlate them with drug treatment response. For example, variations (also called polymorphisms) in genes encoding enzymes involved in drug metabolism have been found to affect the activation, deactivation, and toxicity of drugs used to treat cancer, heart disease, and psychiatric disorders. Recently, scientists found that DNA sequence can also be used to predict responsiveness to current Hepatitis C treatment (a <a class="more-link" href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2009/10/15/pharmacowhat-pharmacogenetics/">More ></a></p> </div> <div class="post-tags"> <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/drugs/" rel="tag" title="drugs (4 topics)">drugs</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/genomics/" rel="tag" title="genomics (5 topics)">genomics</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/hepatitis-c/" rel="tag" title="Hepatitis C (1 topics)">Hepatitis C</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/medicine/" rel="tag" title="medicine (6 topics)">medicine</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/personal-medicine/" rel="tag" title="personal medicine (1 topics)">personal medicine</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/pesronal/" rel="tag" title="pesronal (1 topics)">pesronal</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/pharmacogenetics/" rel="tag" title="Pharmacogenetics (2 topics)">Pharmacogenetics</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/ribavarin/" rel="tag" title="ribavarin (1 topics)">ribavarin</a> </div> </div>   <div id="post-260" class="hentry post post-5 odd author-connolly category-dnafromthebeginning post_tag-2009 post_tag-award post_tag-blackburn post_tag-greider post_tag-medicine post_tag-nobel post_tag-nobel-prize post_tag-physiology post_tag-szostak post_tag-telomerase post_tag-telomere clear-block"> <a class="post-thumb size-post-thumbnail alignleft" href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2009/10/05/blackburn-greider-and-szostak-share-nobel-for-telomeres-2/"><img width="100" height="100" src="http://blogs.dnalc.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/600px-NobelPrize-100x100.jpg" class="attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="600px-NobelPrize" /></a> <h2 class="title"><a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2009/10/05/blackburn-greider-and-szostak-share-nobel-for-telomeres-2/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Blackburn, Greider and Szostak share Nobel for Telomeres">Blackburn, Greider and Szostak share Nobel for Telomeres</a></h2> <div class="post-date"> <p class="day">Oct 5th</p> </div> <div class="post-info clear-block with-thumbs"> <p class="author alignleft">Posted by <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/author/connolly/" title="Posts by connolly ">connolly</a> in <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/category/sitetopics/dnafromthebeginning/">DNA From The Beginning</a> </p> <p class="comments alignright"><a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2009/10/05/blackburn-greider-and-szostak-share-nobel-for-telomeres-2/#comments" class="no comments">No comments</a></p> </div> <div class="post-content clear-block"> <p>Nobel Prize week kicked-off today with the announcement of the Prize in Physiology or Medicine. <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/dnaftb/2009/10/01/countdown-to-the-nobel-prize/">As predicted on these pages</a>, Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider, and Jack Szostak shared the award for discovering telomeres and telomerase. This is particularly good news for Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, which was home to Carol Greider when she made the pivotal discovery of isolating the RNA gene that encodes for the telomeric template.</p> <p class="wp-caption-text"> Carol Greider isolated the Telomeric Gene while at Cold Spring Harbor Lab</p> <p><strong>What is a Telomere? </strong> A telomere is a region (or cap) of repetitive DNA at the end of every chromosome that basically <a class="more-link" href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2009/10/05/blackburn-greider-and-szostak-share-nobel-for-telomeres-2/">More ></a></p> </div> <div class="post-tags"> <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/2009/" rel="tag" title="2009 (3 topics)">2009</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/award/" rel="tag" title="award (1 topics)">award</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/blackburn/" rel="tag" title="blackburn (2 topics)">blackburn</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/greider/" rel="tag" title="greider (2 topics)">greider</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/medicine/" rel="tag" title="medicine (6 topics)">medicine</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/nobel/" rel="tag" title="Nobel (3 topics)">Nobel</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/nobel-prize/" rel="tag" title="Nobel prize (3 topics)">Nobel prize</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/physiology/" rel="tag" title="physiology (2 topics)">physiology</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/szostak/" rel="tag" title="szostak (2 topics)">szostak</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/telomerase/" rel="tag" title="telomerase (4 topics)">telomerase</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/telomere/" rel="tag" title="telomere (4 topics)">telomere</a> </div> </div>   <div id="post-216" class="hentry post post-6 even alt author-connolly category-dnafromthebeginning post_tag-blackburn post_tag-gall post_tag-greider post_tag-induced post_tag-ips post_tag-james-rothman post_tag-john-gurdon post_tag-lasker post_tag-medicine post_tag-nobel post_tag-nobel-awards post_tag-nobel-prize post_tag-nuclear-reprogramming post_tag-physiology post_tag-pluripotent post_tag-prize post_tag-randy-schekman post_tag-shinya-yamanaka post_tag-stem-cell post_tag-szostak post_tag-telomerase post_tag-telomere post_tag-transport post_tag-vesicle clear-block"> <a class="post-thumb size-post-thumbnail alignleft" href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2009/10/01/countdown-to-the-nobel-prize/"><img width="100" height="100" src="http://blogs.dnalc.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/600px-NobelPrize-100x100.jpg" class="attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="600px-NobelPrize" /></a> <h2 class="title"><a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2009/10/01/countdown-to-the-nobel-prize/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Countdown to the 2009 Nobel Prizes…">Countdown to the 2009 Nobel Prizes…</a></h2> <div class="post-date"> <p class="day">Oct 1st</p> </div> <div class="post-info clear-block with-thumbs"> <p class="author alignleft">Posted by <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/author/connolly/" title="Posts by connolly ">connolly</a> in <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/category/sitetopics/dnafromthebeginning/">DNA From The Beginning</a> </p> <p class="comments alignright"><a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2009/10/01/countdown-to-the-nobel-prize/#comments" class="no comments">No comments</a></p> </div> <div class="post-content clear-block"> <p><a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/600px-NobelPrize.jpg"></a>Nobel Prize week will kick-off on Monday (October 5th) with the announcement of the Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The prizes for Physics and Chemistry will follow on successive days, as the science world is treated to its annual brush with celebrity. Unlike the Oscars, however, we do not know the list of nominees and the whole election process is rather secretive. Deprived as we are of a list of formal candidates, I think it best to resort to wild speculation, conjecture, and rumor.</p> <p><strong>Physiology and Medicine…</strong></p> <p><strong>The main contenders:</strong> Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider, and (possibly) Jack Szostak <strong>The discovery: </strong>Telomeres and telomerase <a class="more-link" href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2009/10/01/countdown-to-the-nobel-prize/">More ></a></p> </div> <div class="post-tags"> <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/blackburn/" rel="tag" title="blackburn (2 topics)">blackburn</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/gall/" rel="tag" title="gall (1 topics)">gall</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/greider/" rel="tag" title="greider (2 topics)">greider</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/induced/" rel="tag" title="induced (1 topics)">induced</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/ips/" rel="tag" title="ips (1 topics)">ips</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/james-rothman/" rel="tag" 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src='http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/d378d3a40a3590dd63b538282ae6b78a?s=32&d=http%3A%2F%2F1.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D32&r=G' class='avatar avatar-32 photo' height='32' width='32' /></span><span class="entry">Mohammed Khalfan: <span class="details"> Hi Traci, you should check this website out http://www.23andme.com/ - just might be what you're...</span></span></a></li> <li class="clear-block"><a title="Posted in: IQ Tests as a Measure of Intelligence" class="fadeThis" href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2011/09/28/iq-tests-as-a-measure-of-intelligence/#comment-5440"><span class="avatar"><img alt='' src='http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/6b23915f2fdd2da3dc5c657112de54a5?s=32&d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D32&r=G' class='avatar avatar-32 photo' height='32' width='32' /></span><span class="entry">Sue: <span class="details"> I agree. IQ tests are overated. They are based on assumptions about the nature of intelligence,...</span></span></a></li> <li class="clear-block"><a title="Posted in: Cancer Overtreatment. When the solution is worse than the problem." class="fadeThis" href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2011/12/13/cancer-overtreatment-when-the-solution-is-worse-than-the-problem/#comment-5439"><span class="avatar"><img alt='' src='http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/ad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536?s=32' class='avatar avatar-32 photo avatar-default' height='32' width='32' /></span><span class="entry">points of view: <span class="details"> On My Twitter Feed... Then I checked my personal feed and saw somebody posting the link to the...</span></span></a></li> <li class="clear-block"><a title="Posted in: Tag…You’re It!" class="fadeThis" href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2012/01/19/tag-youre-it/#comment-5359"><span class="avatar"><img alt='' src='http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/52935aba909ed59a5789008268b14fdb?s=32&d=http%3A%2F%2F1.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D32&r=G' class='avatar avatar-32 photo' height='32' width='32' /></span><span class="entry">talha: <span class="details"> the wonders of science i wanna be performing this epigenetic tag therapy.</span></span></a></li> <li class="clear-block"><a title="Posted in: Merry Christmas to Hemophilia Patients" class="fadeThis" href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2011/12/15/merry-christmas-to-hemophilia-patients/#comment-5358"><span class="avatar"><img alt='' src='http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/52935aba909ed59a5789008268b14fdb?s=32&d=http%3A%2F%2F1.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D32&r=G' class='avatar avatar-32 photo' height='32' width='32' /></span><span class="entry">talha: <span class="details"> this is just a tip of an iceberg whats gonna happen more and more can only be expected from gene...</span></span></a></li> <li class="clear-block"><a title="Posted in: DNA DAY 2010: What, me worry about my DNA?" class="fadeThis" href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2010/04/29/dna-day-2010-what-me-worry-about-my-dna/#comment-4616"><span class="avatar"><img alt='' src='http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/fe0f32261332c54b99b24c06881c2573?s=32&d=http%3A%2F%2F1.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D32&r=G' class='avatar avatar-32 photo' height='32' width='32' /></span><span class="entry">Traci: <span class="details"> How would I go about getting my DNA tested? Being an adopted child, we have exhausted legal alleys...</span></span></a></li> <li class="clear-block"><a title="Posted in: AIDS Cure UPDATE" class="fadeThis" href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2011/10/15/aids-cure-update/#comment-1607"><span class="avatar"><img alt='' src='http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/997a441b2802e625590c2adc4ea2545f?s=32&d=http%3A%2F%2F1.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D32&r=G' class='avatar avatar-32 photo' height='32' width='32' /></span><span class="entry">Heaven: <span class="details"> This is really amazing. This is just another step to curing some of the most devastating diseases...</span></span></a></li> <li class="clear-block"><a title="Posted in: Compulsive Hoarding" class="fadeThis" href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2011/11/10/compulsive-hoarding/#comment-1245"><span class="avatar"><img alt='' src='http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/cf95176c58575d503b402764e9710135?s=32&d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D32&r=G' class='avatar avatar-32 photo' height='32' width='32' /></span><span class="entry">Eileen @ Space Matters: <span class="details"> You've got some very interesting info here! 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