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Metagenomics of skin reveals insights into the human microbiome (PhysOrg)

22 May 2008

The human body is home to a diverse range of microorganisms, estimated to outnumber human cells in a healthy adult by ten fold. The importance of characterizing human microbiota for understanding health and disease is highlighted by the recent launch of the Human Microbiome Project by the National Institutes of Health. This report, published online today in Genome Research, describes the ...

Czech government may restrict some health fees (České noviny)

22 May 2008

Prague- Donors of organs and people in social institutes who are without their own means or where placed there on the basis of a court decision may not have to pay the health fees or they may be helped by the welfare system, the Czech coalition government's health commission decided today.

NCI scientists visualize gene regulation in living cells (News-Medical-Net)

22 May 2008

A research team led by scientists at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has applied advanced imaging methods and computer simulations to be able to glance at the regulation of a cancer-related gene in a living cell. They found that the efficiency with which the components of the cell's gene reading machinery come together has an impact on gene ...