What is a gene?

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A glut of data would be released from the international Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project in 2006 whose pilot phase involves scrutinizing roughly 1% of the human genome in unprecedented details. The first of the complexities to challenge molecular biology's paradigm of a single DNA sequence encoding a single protein was alternative splicing, discovered in viruses in 1977.

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Infertility researchers target uterus transplant

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Infertility researchers are targeting women with a transplanted uterus so that she might bear a child, an operation, if performed, would only be the second such attempt in the world. The risks and benefits of uterus transplants and also the effects of the immunosuppressant drugs are discussed.

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A hard habit to break

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In 1999, head of the U.S. National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) at a press conference presented two sets of posters showing a healthy brain and a brain damaged by use of ecstasy drug. The scientific community called this a cavalier approach to research and accused NIDA of drug-war ethos.

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