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  • Issue 34Issue 34: Sept/ Oct 2009
    - Genomes Gone Wild
    - Primate Push
    - Minding the Gaps
    - Dissecting Dengue Fever
    - Hep C Case Cracked
    - Race and Medicine
  • Issue 33Issue 33: Mar/ Apr 2009
    - Message from the Director
    - Signatures of a Virus
    - Genomes in Translation
    - Milestones: In Genomic Medicine
    - Entrepreneurship: "Root Array"
    - Catching a Cold
  • Issue 32Issue 32: Nov/ Dec 2008
    - Message from the Director
    - An Unruly Environment
    - All in the Family
    - Charting Medicine’s New Course


  • Isssue 31 Issue 31: Sept/Oct 2008
    - Message from the Director
    - In Brief: Focus on Cancer
    - Genome Explorations
    - On Infertile Ground


  • Issue 30Issue 30: April/ May 2008
    - Message from the Director
    - Property Rights ... and Wrongs
    - Talkin' 'Bout My Generation
    - Seven Billion Genotypes
  • Issue 29Issue 29: Nov/ Dec 2007
    -Tunes from the Focus Program
    -Accentuate the Positive
    -So Easy, A Cave Man Could do it?
    -Profile: Charmaine Royal, PhD
    -Contagion Fever: Catch it

  • Issue 28Issue 28: Sept/ OCt 2007
    - Message from the Director
    - Prospecting for Health
    - Game, Set Point, Match
    - Profile: Ornit Chiba-Falek, PhD
    - Recent Books by IGSP Authors
  • Issue 27Issue 27: May/June 2007
    - Message from the Director
    - To Disclose or Not?
    - The Most Beautiful Experiment
    - Nice-Looking Data
    - Profile: Jeanette McCarthy, PhD
    - Profile: Sandeep Davé, MD
  • Issue 26Issue 26: Mar/April 2007
    - Message from the Director
    - Under the Micro Scope
    - Teenage Synthetic Biologists
    - Profile: Laura Beskow, PhD
    - Profile: David MacAlpine, PhD


  • Issue 25Issue 25: Jan/Feb 2007
    - 2006: The Genome Year in Review
    - Reconciling God and Genes
    - There Oughtta be a Law
    - Bioinformatics: Size Matters
    - Faculty Profile: Anil Potti, MD


  • Issue 24Issue 24: Nov/Dec 2006
    - Message from the Director
    - Race, Ancestry and Genomics
    - For the Love of Molecular Biology
    - Undergrads, Patents and Genomes
    - Faculty Profile: Bruce Donald, PhD
  • Issue 23Issue 23: Sept/Oct 2006
    - Message from th Director
    - Family Ties
    - Bioart and Genome Science
    - Faculy Profile: Susanne Hage



  • Issue 22Issue 22: May/June 2006
    -
    Message from the Director
    - Nuclear Genes
    - The Issue of Tissue
    - Only a Fly?
    - Faculty Profile: Mike Weale
  • Issue 21Issue 21: March/ April 2006
    - Message from the Directors
    - Genetics and Identity
    - $1,000 Genome?
    - Selling the Genome Revolution
    - Faculty Profile: Greg Crawford
  • Issue 20Issue 20: Jan/Feb 2006
    - 2005: The Genome Year in Review
    - The Other Microarray
    - Q&A with Stephen O’Brien
    - From Genes to Vaccines
    - Faculty Profile: Beth Sullivan
  • Issue 19Issue 19: Nov/ Dec 2005
    - Message from the Director
    - Faculty Profile: Brian Chadwick
    - The Way Things Used to Be
    - The Fantastic Plastic Brain
    - The Crooked Path to Disease -
  • Issue 18Issue 18: Sept/Oct 2005
    - Message from the Director
    - The Innocence Project
    - Understanding Stem Cells
    - The Value of Sequenced Genomes
    - Faculty Profile: Nina Tang Sherwood
  • Issue 17Issue 17: May 2005
    - Message from the Director
    - DNA Use in Computing
    - Alex Rosenberg on Autonomy
    - Back to the Mines
    - Faculty Profile: Lindsay Cowell

  • Issue 16Issue 16: April 2005
    - Message from the Directors
    - Ovarian Cancer: Causes, Risks
    - Whither the God Gene?
    - A Conversation: Stuart L. Pimm
    - Genome Innovations
    - New Faculty Profile: Jun Zhu
  • Issue15Issue 15: March 2005
    - Message from the Directors
    - The Butterfly as Copycat
    - Integrative Medicine
    - Cluster Computing
    -New Faculty Profile: Uwe Ohler

  • Issue 14Issue 14: February 2005
    - Message from the Director
    -Faculty Profile: Paul Magwene
    - Q & A with David Bostein
    - Brain Gain
    - Rubbing Shoulders with Giants

  • Isssue 13Issue 13: January 2005
    - 2004: Year in Review
    - LIngchong You, PhD
    - Getting the Blood Moving
    - Networking about Networks
    - Designer Proteins
    - Genome Innovations
  • Issue 12Issue 12: Nov/Dec 2004
    - Message from the Director
    - School Days
    - Genomes and Global Health
    - New Faculty Profiles: Chi, Furey
    - Engineering a Partnership
    - Genome Innovations
  • Issue 11Issue 11: October 2004
    - Message from the Director
    - Meet Phillip Febbo, MD
    - Genomic Profiling
    - Better Living Through Chemistry
    - Reardon Joins IGSP

  • Issue 10Issue 10: September 2004
    - Message from the Director
    - Center for Public Genomics
    - In a Brighter Mood
    - Running Interference
    - As the Worm Turns

  • Issue 09Issue 09: August 2004
    - Message from the Director
    - Genome Innovations
    - Conversation with Oliver Smithies
    - Snails Promote Diversity
    - Incentives Versus Access
  • Issue 08Issue 08: May 2004
    - Message from the Director
    - Eric Lander on the Genome
    - One Gene, Two Diseases
    - Faculty Profile: Scott Alper, PhD
    - What Your Mother Should Know

  • Issue 07Issue 07: April 2004
    - Message from the Director
    - Conversation with Eric Green
    - Just Don't Call Them Monkeys
    - Go Fish
    - Q & A with James Wyngaarden
  • Issue 06Issue 06: March 2004
    - Message from the Director
    - Decisions, Decisions
    - GELP Fellowship Endowment
    - Gene Therapy on the Mend?
  • Issue 05Issue 05: February 2004
    - Message from the Director
    - Q & A with David Seo
    - Q & A with Maria Sippola-Thiele
    - FOCUS on The Genome Revolution

  • Isssue 04Issue 04: January 2004
    - The Genome Year in Review
    - Duke Undergrads and the Genome
    - Reflections on Race
    - Nevins Named Director of CGT
  • Issue 03Issue 03: November 2003
    - Message from the Director
    - Faculty Profile: Priscilla Wald
    - Symposium Spotlights Diversity
    - Perioperative Genomics
  • Issue 02Issue 02: October 2003
    - Message from the Director
    - Faculty Profile
    - Staff Profile: Chis Tobias
    - Nevins and West Join Forces
    - Gene Profiling and the NBCC
  • Issue 01Issue 01: September 2003
    - Message from the Director
    - Faculty Profile: Simon Gregory
    - Faculty Profile: Laura Rusche
    - IGSP Centers Get Homes