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Greater variety of pre-natal screenings now offered

Erika Check Hayden | 
The list of available pre-natal genetic screening tests is growing. The tests are non-invasive and generally have a low false-positive ...

Global genomic data-sharing effort kicks off

Ewen Callaway | 
The number of sequenced human genomes will soon jump from the thousands to the millions. But a recently established high-profile ...

Parents best suited to make decisions on genetic testing for their families

Technology often outpaces ethical discussions; this has become evident in the current recommendations around next-generation genomic testing and the way ...
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Genetic entrepreneur J. Craig Venter to tackle the problem of human aging

Andrew Pollack | 
Craig Venter sequenced the first human genome. He made the first synthetic cell. And now, for his next trick, he's ...

China cracks down on DNA testing

Shu-Ching Jean Chen | 
Genetic testing has grown to be a business big enough in China to warrant the government’s intervention. Early in February, ...

Market for DNA-sequencing-based Down Syndrome tests could top $6 billion

Matthew Herper | 
On Wednesday night the New England Journal of Medicine published a study showing that a new, DNA-sequencing based blood test ...

Telling patients they have genetic markers for Alzheimer’s damages memory test performance

Xavier Symons | 
A recent article in the American Journal of Psychiatry has examined the effects of informing patients of genetic predispositions to ...
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Without accurate genome sequencing, personalized medicine is a goner

Jason Koebler | 
It's hard to correctly read every one of the six-billion base pairs in a human genome. But without precision sequencing, ...
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Leading bioethicists suggest dropping informed consent in limited cases

John de Dios | 
As technology continues to evolve, leading bioethicists are proposing nuanced approaches to consent: not providing the opportunity for informed consent ...

Geneticists unraveling why autism strikes boys more than girls

Karen Weintraub | 
It has long been clear that autism strikes boys more often than girls. But when girls do get the condition, ...

Genetic manipulation is a slippery–so get over it

Laura Hercher | 
This week, the Food and Drug Administration debated a new IVF technique that could allow women with mitochondrial disease to ...

50,000 generation experiment proves ‘adaptive evolution’ is relentless

Kerry Grens | 
In 1988, when evolutionary biologist Richard Lenski was an assistant professor at the University of California, Irvine, he started a ...

Ovary removal reduces death risk by 77% in women with BRCA mutations

Theresa Boyle | 
A young, cancer-free Toronto woman says her decision to have both ovaries and both breasts removed was daunting, but not ...

Hacked relatives DNA information could expose your genetic secrets

Sarah Knapton | 
The genetic information of hundreds of thousands of Britons could be revealed through ‘hacking’ into the DNA of their relatives ...

DTC genetic testing companies need nudge to help patients understand results

Dov Fox | 
The 23andMe controversy illustrates a stalemate over the role of direct-to-consumer genetic testing in American health care. On one side ...

Developing a test to predict prostrate cancer risk

James Gallagher | 
DNA testing can predict which men face the highest risk of deadly prostate cancer, scientists say. The team at the ...
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Promise of “easy” stem cells comes under investigation

Kenrick Vezina | 
Two breakthrough papers in Nature highlight a remarkable new technique for creating totipotent stem cells via a simple acid bath ...

Genes linked to feeling full may play a role in genetic obesity

Jo Adetunji | 
A genetic predisposition to weight gain and obesity in later life can in part be explained by a lack of ...

There’s nothing wrong with looking for ‘gay genes’

Tom Chivers | 
The Left loves to tell the Right that it's anti-science, pointing (not without reason) to the correlation between conservative beliefs ...

Family selects for children with lower genetic cancer risk

Bonnie Rochman | 
To shield any future children from the fear she harbors of getting breast cancer, Katie Dowdy underwent a controversial procedure ...

Families hope anti-genetic engineering groups don’t stop gene cure for mitochondria disease

Robin McKie | 
Hopes of tackling mitochondrial disease will be raised in a few weeks when the government announces regulations that will permit ...

Scientists edge closer to identifying bipolar risk genes

Traci Pedersen | 
Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have taken a major step toward identifying the specific genes that ...
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Gay people are not genetic aberrations

Nick Cohen | 
The recent gay gene "finding" hasn't been peer reviewed, doesn't amount to much scientifically, and opens the door to the ...
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Ancient genetics may lead to future treatment for gout

Kenrick Vezina | 
We're susceptible to gout because of a mutated gene in humans and other primates that prevents us from producing uricase, ...
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New bionic hand includes a sense of touch

Greg Miller | 
Sensory feedback is what will turn future prostheses from tools into hands; a breakthrough bionic hand represents a first step ...

Company to offer workouts tailored to your genetics

Owen Thomas | 
Over the years, I’ve taken a quasi-scientific approach to fitness, trying a variety of exercise and nutrition regimens and analyzing ...

Biotech start-up targets Parkinson’s and ALS with new gene therapy

Callum Borchers | 
A Cambridge biotechnology company launching Wednesday is taking aim at Parkinson’s disease and ALS with a new gene therapy that ...
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