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  Scientists unlock genetic secrets of diseases afflicting millions

  · Huge study covers seven common illnesses
  · Hope of new cures for heart and bowel disorders

  • More on medicine and health

• Coeliac disease linked to level of genes controlling inflammation

  Scientists have found a new genetic risk factor for coeliac disease, an immune disorder that stops people eating wheat-based food.

• Tycoon's team finds fewest number of genes needed for life

  · Hopes for trillion-dollar bounty from breakthrough
  · Man-made microbes could produce clean fuel

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• How I got here

  Aug 31 2008:

  Robin McKie plots his ancestors' migration

• The incredible journey taken by our genes

  Aug 31 2008:

  Project maps humanity's voyage out of Africa to new continents and domination of the world

• DNA testing: Doctors search for 100,000 at risk of early heart attack

  Aug 27 2008:

  National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence recommends major DNA testing programme

• Charles's fantasy farming won't feed Africa's poor

  Aug 22 2008:

  Paul Collier:A return to organic peasantry will feed only affluent angst. To take on global hunger, genetic modification is crucial

• Medicine: DNA may decide patients' drugs

  Aug 20 2008:

  Genetic data may be more accurate than referring to someone's race when prescribing drugs

• Long-lost cousins

  Aug 12 2008:

  Adam Rutherford: What do new discoveries about how Neanderthal man lived and died tell us about our human ancestors?

• Leg bone yields DNA secrets of man's Neanderthal 'Eve'

  Aug 8 2008:

  Genetic material shows division of species between Neanderthal and humans occurred 660,000 years ago

• Clone me: Booger's back, times five

  Aug 6 2008:

  American woman receives five puppies from South Korean firm that were cloned from her dead pit bull

• Pet cloning service bears five baby Boogers

  Aug 5 2008:

  California woman pays £25,000 for South Korean scientists to create five identical copies of beloved pit bull terrier

• Skin cells could help with treatment of Alzheimer's

  Jul 31 2008:

  Scientists have plucked skin cells from elderly women and turned them into spinal cord nerves in a world first that promises to transform research into debilitating diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's

• While our scientists struggle with ethics, the Islamic world forges ahead

  Jul 31 2008:

  Jim Al-Khalili: Stem cell researchers are branded by the Catholic church as playing God, but Iran's geneticists are unhindered by doctrine

• Where's the debate on the DNA database?

  Jul 30 2008:

  Diane Abbott: It contains the profiles of a million innocent people and lacks basic safeguards – but it has no legislative foundation

• Take the innocent off DNA database, says inquiry

  Jul 30 2008:

  Ex-convicts' records should be erased as retaining profiles 'continues to criminalise them'

• Unequal record

  Jul 30 2008:

  Editorial: Used badly, a DNA database will harm the society it is supposed to protect

• Row over plan to DNA test Chopin's heart

  Jul 27 2008:

  Scientists refused permission to analyse organ to prove composer died of cystic fibrosis, not TB

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