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Professor Leena Peltonen-Palotie 1952 - 2010 RIP

Professor Leena Peltonen-Palotie, Head of Human Genetics at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute passed away on 11 March 2010 at her home in Finland after a long and characteristically courageous battle with cancer. She was 57.

Leena was a leading human geneticist of her era, holding at her death appointments at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland and the Broad Institute, Cambridge, USA. In the past six months, she was honoured with the Carter medal from the Clinical Genetics Society for her outstanding contribution to clinical genetics and recognition as Academician of Science, the highest honour in her home country.

She had a hugely distinguished career, publishing more than 500 research papers as well as almost 80 review articles and serving on the Boards of the European and American Societies of Human Genetics and a dozen other scientific organisations. Her knowledge and wisdom were called upon for national and international committees on population genetics, clinical genetics and ethics of genetics research. She always saw her research firmly in the context of the needs of society.

Leena graduated MD in 1976 and PhD in 1978 from the University of Oulu, Finland. She carried out postdoctoral research at Rutgers Medical School, New Jersey after which she returned to Finland, becoming Professor at the National Public Health Institute in 1991 at the age of 39. In 1998 she took up a new challenge, returning to the US to establish a major genetics research centre at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), which she led for four years. In 2002 Finland once more called and Leena returned to a Professorship in the University of Helsinki and the National Public Health Institute. She rose in influence and was invited to a Visiting Professorship at the Broad Institute, one of the world's leading genetics institutions.

In 2007 she assumed the position of Head of Human Genetics at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute to be held concurrently with her roles in Finland and the US. Her indefatigable style meant that she was able to succeed in these three demanding roles.

Leena was a visionary geneticist, champion of population genetics and public health, firmly supporting public health strategies alongside clinical measures to improve human health. Leena's return to her European roots reflected her personal commitment to the understanding and conquest of genetic disease and her vision of the importance of European population genetics in this quest. She worked tirelessly to bring together human genetics activities across Europe. The Sanger Institute and the progress of human genetics globally are diminished by her passing.

Leena's vision and charisma have been inspirational to many, particularly the younger generation. As a teacher and scholar she has fostered the next generation of geneticists, supervising more than 70 PhD students. As Head of Human Genetics at the Sanger Institute, she has recruited a cadre of young faculty and energised our scientific programmes. Her legacy, though, is international: she has transformed science and scientists where she has left her touch. It is also personal: she evinced strong support and respect in all those with whom she worked.

Although this short tribute is largely about Leena's research, Leena the person has left just as strong an impression on all who met her. Leena was much more than a colleague to many of us at the Sanger Institute and she was an ardent supporter of scientific excellence beyond her sphere of human genetics. Her disarming smile, her charisma and the flash of colour as she moved across campus will provide lasting memories for her friends and colleagues on the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus. These essences of her sprit, admired by so many, will be remembered.

http://www.sanger.ac.uk/about/press/2010/110310.html

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Bad News for Indian Lovers of Moussaka!

India Halts Release of GM Aubergine

The Indian minister for the environment today imposed a six-month moratorium on the launch of a genetically modified variety of aubergine,known locally as brinjal, saying that further scientific research was needed before permission could be given for its commercial cultivation.

Jairam Ramesh said he had taken note of "tremendous opposition" from state governments within India, broad public resistance and the lack of a scientific consensus. "This would be the first GM vegetable crop anywhere in the world so I have been very sensitive and I have arrived at this decision which is responsible to science and responsible to society," he said tonight.

The decision was welcomed by campaigners. "It is an excellent precedent," said the Environment Support Group. "No minister before has ever subjected such an important decision to such public and scientific review."

Opponents had argued that the mass cultivation of the new variety – known as Bt Brinjal after the initials of the bacterium inserted into the plant to boost its resistance to insects – would damage the 2,000 or more existing types of aubergine grown in India. Many also raised concerns about potential human health hazards.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/09/india-halts-genetically-modified-aubergine

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Beware 1st April!

The Editor, being of an elderly nature, remembers fondly, what must have been one of the first (if not The First) April Fool Stunts pulled off by the mainstream public media.

The spaghetti tree hoax is a famous 3-minute hoax report broadcast on April Fool's Day 1957 by the BBC current affairs programme Panorama. It told a tale of a family in sourthern Switzerland harvesting spaghetti from the fictitious spaghetti tree, broadcast at a time when this Italian dish was not widely eaten in the UK and some Britons were unaware spaghetti is a pasta made from wheat flour and water. Hundreds of viewers phoned into the BBC, either to say the story was not true, or wondering about it, with some even asking how to grow their own spaghetti trees. Decades later CNN called this broadcast "the biggest hoax that any reputable news establishment ever pulled."

Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_tree

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