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Submission + - Move over centenarians, the race is on to collect DNA from 110-year-olds (nytimes.com)

biobricks writes: Scientists looking for clues to healthy longevity in people in their 90's and 100's haven't turned up a whole lot. The DNA of the VERY old, it is thought, may be a better bet. But people over 110 are one in five million in the United States. New York Times science story chronicles one scientific quest to collect their DNA.

Submission + - Anti-GMO activists win victory on Hawaii island (nytimes.com) 1

biobricks writes: New York Times reports on how the county council on the Big Island of Hawaii banned GMOs. The story is told through the eyes of one lonely councilman's struggle with the left-wing forces of anti-science and fear mongering in genetic engineering

Submission + - GMO Oranges? Altering a Fruit's DNA to Save it (nytimes.com)

biobricks writes: NY Times story says the Florida orange crop is threatened by an incurable disease and traces the efforts of one company to insert a spinach gene in orange trees to fend it off. Not clear if consumers will go for it though.

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