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By Alison Abbott of Nature magazine The health-research division of the European Commission launches its largest-ever project next week with a €30-million (US$41-million) investment in understanding the human epigenome, the constellation of DNA modifications that shape how genes are expressed. With the project, called BLUEPRINT, Europe intends to become a major player in the International Human Epigenome Consortium (IHEC), set up last year to help biologists understand how the epigenome influences health and disease

By Alison Abbott of Nature magazine Prader-Willi syndrome. [More]

By Alison Abbott The European Commission has selected six futuristic proposals to compete for two huge flagship projects that will apply information and communication technologies to social problems. [More]