Conservatives and Labour bid to disrupt voting reform

Conservatives and Labour bid to disrupt voting reform
Tory backbenchers and shadow justice secretary Jack Straw may derail Nick Clegg’s referendum Nick Clegg’s plan to reform the UK’s electoral system was tonight caught in a pincer movement between Conservative backbenchers and the Labour party, who both want to change the date of the referendum and potentially derail it. The executive of the Tory 1922 backbench committee and the shadow justice …
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New TGen technology reduces storage needs and costs for genomic data
A new computer data compression technique called Genomic SQueeZ, developed by the Translational Genomics Research Institute, will allow genetic researchers and others to store, analyze and share massive volumes of data in less space and at lower cost.
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