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	<title>Swiss DNA Bank</title>
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		<title>Familial DNA for police investigation</title>
		<link>http://blog.swissdnabank.com/2010/07/familial-dna-for-police-investigation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>liza</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A new step forward in forensic investigation: if suspect’s DNA is not available, relatives one’s might be. And can become investigation material.
This is what lead lately to the arrest of the so-called “Grim Sleeper” serial killer, who has been terrorizing Los Angeles for over twenty years.
The police said they were able to charge Lonnie Franklin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mass genome sequencing is finally happening</title>
		<link>http://blog.swissdnabank.com/2010/06/mass-genome-sequencing-is-now-happening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 20:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>liza</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The new frontier for disease cure and prevention is somewhere in our gene, that we have all known for a while. Until not so long ago, high costs and long timings have prevented to exploit the incredible possibilities of genome sequencing.
Now that the wall of costs has been broken, the first mass DNA sequencing workshop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The secret of eternal youth hidden in a girl&#8217;s DNA?</title>
		<link>http://blog.swissdnabank.com/2010/05/the-secret-of-eternal-youth-hidden-in-a-girls-dna/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 12:27:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>liza</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Brooke Greenberg looks like a toddler, but is actually 17 years old. Born healthy, her parents noticed that something was wrong sometime between her first and second birthday, as she she was not developing and growing like other children.
Seventeen years later, Brook still holds the cognitive level of a baby, is 30 cm high, has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DNA, whale and sushi</title>
		<link>http://blog.swissdnabank.com/2010/04/dna-whale-and-sushi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>liza</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Investigating following a DNA track is not unique to murder scenes and serial killing crimes. Well, at least not unique to the human species. 
DNA analysis has been recently used to track down how whale sushi ended up in the plates of restaurants in California and Korea.
 
Such tracking is already being conducted on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DNA issues deep in the Grand canyon</title>
		<link>http://blog.swissdnabank.com/2010/04/dna-issues-deep-in-the-grand-canyon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:36:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>luca</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The first monetary settlement for misuse of DNA sample has been payed after  four years court battle by the Arizona State University.
The beneficiaries of the $700,000 fine are 41 members of the ancient Indian Tribe Havasupai, who have been living in almost complete isolation for centuries in an enchanted corner deep in the Grand Canyon. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Organic farmers concerned about Swiss chard</title>
		<link>http://blog.swissdnabank.com/2010/03/swiss-chard-helping-us-farmers/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.swissdnabank.com/2010/03/swiss-chard-helping-us-farmers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>liza</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday said farmers could harvest their genetically engineered sugar beets this year, ruling that the economic impact would be too great if the crop were to be destroyed.
The judge, Jeffrey White of the United States District Court in San Francisco, also ruled that the environmental groups, including [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medal for DNA fingerprint pioneer</title>
		<link>http://blog.swissdnabank.com/2010/03/medal-for-dna-fingerprint-pioneer/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.swissdnabank.com/2010/03/medal-for-dna-fingerprint-pioneer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>luca</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys has become the 22nd person, three of whom have gone on to become Nobel Peace Prize winners, to receive the award.
He will receive the accolade on 14 April during the Edinburgh International Science Festival.
DNA profiling is now a major tool in solving crime, and the standard method of resolving paternity disputes.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mental health and its gene</title>
		<link>http://blog.swissdnabank.com/2009/11/mental-health-and-its-gene/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.swissdnabank.com/2009/11/mental-health-and-its-gene/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>liza</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[An international research team at the University of Edinburg just discovered that an inactive gene in patient’s brain might be the cause of severe mental disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression.
The results show that gene ABCA13 plays a crucial role in brain health. More specifically, the gene is responsible for the way fat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why we DON’T want access to your data</title>
		<link>http://blog.swissdnabank.com/2009/11/why-we-don%e2%80%99t-want-access-to-your-data/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.swissdnabank.com/2009/11/why-we-don%e2%80%99t-want-access-to-your-data/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>liza</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[T-Mobile UK experienced earlier this week a massive breach into its data base: a yet undisclosed number of customers records have been stolen and, most likely, sold to an unidentified third party.
&#8220;The number of records involved runs into the millions and it appears that substantial amounts of money changed hands”, said in a document Britain&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On-line record becomes alibi in robbery trial</title>
		<link>http://blog.swissdnabank.com/2009/11/on-line-record-becomes-alibi-in-robbery-trial/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.swissdnabank.com/2009/11/on-line-record-becomes-alibi-in-robbery-trial/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>liza</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week an every-day matter such as a Facebook status turned into something more: a rock-solid alibi. It happened to a 19-year-old Newyorker, who has been identified by a robbery witness during a police line-up.
After a couple of weeks in jail, his attorney submitted his computer’s activity record to the court. His Facebook status was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the UK handling the DNA issue well?</title>
		<link>http://blog.swissdnabank.com/2009/11/is-the-uk-handling-the-dna-issue-well/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.swissdnabank.com/2009/11/is-the-uk-handling-the-dna-issue-well/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:57:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>liza</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The issue with Government holding citizen’s DNA profiles is hot topic in the UK right now. Britain has in fact one of the largest DNA databases in the world, with profiles of over 5 million people, or 8 percent of the population. 
Police currently have the power to take DNA or fingerprints from anyone at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data storage and its confusing ruling</title>
		<link>http://blog.swissdnabank.com/2009/11/data-storage-and-its-confusing-ruling/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.swissdnabank.com/2009/11/data-storage-and-its-confusing-ruling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>luca</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.swissdnabank.com/?p=285</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The rules that regulate data storage vary around the world. A hot topic on the web. How long exactly data processing and storage companies have to keep them in their facilities before deleting them? This is an open issue not only to smaller data centers, but to big Internet players such as Google and Microsoft [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Human Experience Search Engine tool</title>
		<link>http://blog.swissdnabank.com/2009/11/the-human-experience-search-engine-tool/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.swissdnabank.com/2009/11/the-human-experience-search-engine-tool/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>luca</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Privacy and security are two core issues at Swiss DNA Bank. This is why we organized the strongest data protection system available.
But such a unique data collection and its Forever storage guarantee made us think very seriously about the possibility of making this data available to the world. Every time you create an event on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Synthetic human cells: artificial life or real choice?</title>
		<link>http://blog.swissdnabank.com/2009/10/synthetic-human-cells-artificial-life-or-real-choice/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.swissdnabank.com/2009/10/synthetic-human-cells-artificial-life-or-real-choice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>luca</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today’s big news in the DNA research field is the result of professor Renee Reijo Pera’s team at Stanford University: primitive human sperm and eggs and the germ cells that make them have been created from embryonic stem cells.
Media has gone wild over the news, rating it anything in between the ultimate infertility treatment to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>T-mobile and the data storage melt down</title>
		<link>http://blog.swissdnabank.com/2009/10/t-mobile-and-the-data-storage-melt-down/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.swissdnabank.com/2009/10/t-mobile-and-the-data-storage-melt-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>luca</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The beginning of this week left many Americans stranded without any sidekick support. More specifically, I’m talking about T-Mobile’s phone data backup failure.
“Sidekick” is a celebrity’s-pick telephone and e-mail device distributed by T-Mobile, brought to fame by a very-out-there advertising campaign which featured Paris Hilton, Snoop Dogg and other big celeb names.
The data stored in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IBM in the low-cost genome sequencing race</title>
		<link>http://blog.swissdnabank.com/2009/10/ibm-in-the-low-cost-genome-sequencing-race/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.swissdnabank.com/2009/10/ibm-in-the-low-cost-genome-sequencing-race/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>liza</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As human genome sequencing becomes a hotter subject in today’s medical field, IBM just announced it will join the race to provide cheap DNA analysis.
Many specialized labs, companies and universities have been working on the project for years, and IBM seems to be a bit behind in the game, but tech journalists have gone wild [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life insurance vs. post-life insurance</title>
		<link>http://blog.swissdnabank.com/2009/09/life-insurance-and-post-life-insurance/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.swissdnabank.com/2009/09/life-insurance-and-post-life-insurance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>liza</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There are some things in life we just take for granted and feel are absolutely necessary. Life insurance is one of them. No one would take the chance of leaving their family in financial difficulties should something happen to them.
But where does the concept of life insurance originate?
Apparently, the first form of life insurance was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preserving human experience</title>
		<link>http://blog.swissdnabank.com/2009/09/preserving-human-experience/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.swissdnabank.com/2009/09/preserving-human-experience/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>liza</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.swissdnabank.com/?p=244</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What is experience? According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, experience means the conscious events that make up an individual life, the events that make up the conscious past of a community or nation or humankind generally, the direct observation of or participation in events as a basis of knowledge or the fact or state of having [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transparent data storage will prevent the world another financial meltdown and spare your banker another nervous breakdown</title>
		<link>http://blog.swissdnabank.com/2009/09/transparent-data-storage-will-prevent-the-world-another-financial-meltdown-and-spare-your-banker-another-nervous-breakdown/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>liza</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The US House Financial Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations just concluded the hearings on how technology can be the ultimate tool to improve financial services and TARP, the American government program to purchase assets and equities from financial institutions in order to strengthen a crippled financial sector.
The focus of the discussion was on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rain forest, tropical frogs and iPhones</title>
		<link>http://blog.swissdnabank.com/2009/09/rain-forest-tropical-frogs-and-iphones/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.swissdnabank.com/2009/09/rain-forest-tropical-frogs-and-iphones/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>liza</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Just when you thought the over 70,000 phone apps on the market covered every single entertainment, scientific or news-spreading purpose possible, the need for new applications grows.
Last week, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology hosted a scientific convention focused on a new field: the human-environment mobile-based interactions.
Cell phones, iPods and any other portable computing device are [...]]]></description>
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