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...HIV/AIDS, two major scourges of the continent. "We can now be more inclusive rather than exclusive and begin to redress the problem of certain drugs not working as well for [southern Africans] as [Europeans]," says Vanessa Hayes, a cancer specialist at the University of New South Wales and co-author of the study...
...author Webb Miller of Pennsylvania State also noted that genetic diversity is a great boon to humanity because "if we didn't have this diversity we might be wiped out by the next major disease." And Hayes expressed frustration that Africans were considered "different" because they diverge from the European genome. "My question is what if the reference genome we used came from southern Africa? Then we would say the Europeans are different," she said...
...Understanding how this gene [DAB2IP] regulates metastasis at a deeper level...can ultimately lead to a new step in understanding not just prostate cancer, but how metastasis occurs,” said HMS Professor William C. Hahn ’87, an author of the paper...
Helene Hegemann's debut novel, Axolotl Roadkill, cracked Germany's best-seller list and received rave reviews by newspapers after it was published in late January. "The book is phenomenal. And its author is a phenomenon," gushed the daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung. Another paper, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, called the book "the great coming-of-age novel of the Naughties." But Hegemann didn't have much time to rest on her laurels. A blogger, Deef Pirmasens, became suspicious of the minor's vivid descriptions of drug-fueled nights at the infamous Berlin techno club Berghain and discovered that several passages...
...people's work, taking a stand against what she called the "copyright excesses" of the past decade. Nonetheless, her publishing company, Ullstein, seemed to care about the possible legal ramifications of her actions, and issued a statement saying it had contacted Airen's publishing company and asked for retroactive authorization of the disputed passages. Ullstein also said it had already obtained permission for Hegemann to use another passage in the text by American author David Foster Wallace, which it had known about before the book's release. (See the top 10 literary stunts...