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			<title>Gene networks associated with obesity</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/03/2008/#story_4031</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The rising incidence of obesity presents one of the most  disturbing and widespread public health problems for many societies. In the UK the rate of  obesity has roughly doubled since the 1980s, with approx 17% of men and 21% of  women now classed as obese and so at increased risk of diabetes, strok ... ]]></description>
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			<title>European Biobanking Infrastructure launched</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/03/2008/#story_3997</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The European Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure was officially launched at a meeting held at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Center in Cambridge from 10-12 February 2008. This &amp;lsquo;European Biobank&amp;rsquo; is intended to form a central computerised system linking the records of ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Cancer network planned for Asia</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/12/2007/#story_3938</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Cancer researchers from Asia attending the International Union against Cancer (UICC) symposium in Nanjing, China in November, have developed plans for a regional network to share data on cancer epidemiology and prevention. As reported in the journal Nature, the Asian Cancer Registry and Information  ... ]]></description>
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			<title>NHGRI expands funding initiatives</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/10/2007/#story_3857</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), announced recently that is to expand two of its ongoing initiatives. One of these is intended to broaden knowledge of the human genome by, for example, identifying individual genes, their location  ... ]]></description>
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			<title>NIH Roadmap leads to genomics</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/07/2007/#story_3497</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ As part of its Roadmap strategy to tackle major opportunities and gaps in biomedical research, the US National Institutes of Health has published its latest list of priority research areas that cut across all 27 of its constituent institutes and centres. There is a clear focus on genomics, with majo ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Systems Biology report calls for investment and reform</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/02/2007/#story_3111</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The UK Academy of Medical Sciences and Royal Academy of Engineering have published a new joint report: Systems Biology: a vision for engineering and medicine. Systems biology is a relatively new field that applies computer modelling techniques and systems engineering concepts to biological research, ... ]]></description>
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			<title>NIH seeks comments on genome-wide association studies policies</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/09/2006/#story_2634</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) is seeking comments on its proposed plans regarding data sharing and tracking of NIH-funded genome-wide association studies (GWAS). The NIH defines a GWAS as “…any study of genetic variation across the entire human genome that is designed to identify geneti ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Identification of colorectal cancer mutation carriers</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/07/2006/#story_2544</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Colorectal cancers are the third most common form of cancer (around 35,000 cases annually) and the second leading cause of cancer deaths (around 16,000 cases annually) in the UK. Although most colorectal cancers occur in individuals with no significant family history of the disease, a small proporti ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Nearly one fifth of all human genes patented</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/10/2005/#story_2089</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2005 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Researchers have reported in Science that nearly 20% of all protein-coding human genes have been patented, with the majority patented by private biotechnology companies [Jensen K. and Murray F. (2005) Science 310, 239-240]. This accounts for 4382 of the 23,688 genes published in the US National Cent ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Developing software for genome data and systems biology</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/07/2005/#story_1754</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Computer multinational Microsoft is hosting a meeting of leading       scientists in Venice, Towards       2020 Science, to discuss current and future needs for new computational       tools to generate, store, analyse and interpret data from scientific research       (see BBC news       report). Th ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Developments in gene prediction software</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/05/2005/#story_1738</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2005 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The international ENCyclopedia       Of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project, established in 2003 with the aim of       identifying all the functional elements in the human genome sequence, held       its Gene       Prediction Workshop at the Wellcome       Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge last week. Th ... ]]></description>
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			<title>€12 million award for European Bioinformatics Network of Excellence</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/01/2004/#story_1279</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2004 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The EU Commission has awarded 12 million Euros to a network of 24 bioinformatics groups based in 14 countries across Europe, to establish a virtual research institute for genome annotation (see EBI press release). Information overload is becoming increasingly problematic as genome sequencing and rel ... ]]></description>
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