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George Church wonders why you haven’t had your genome sequenced yet
There was a fascinating moment at Google’s Cambridge office when Harvard geneticist George Church asked how many people in a ...
New company developing “DNA surgery”
When a tumor grows on an organ, doctors remove it. When a hip stops working, they replace it. When a ...
Genetic clues in mammals could unlock secret to anti-aging
For years, scientists have studied how to combat old age. Now, new research suggests that genetic clues in mammals with ...
Would you edit your genes?
The most difficult thinking about gene therapy involves normally healthy people who have mutations that are highly predictive of a ...
Testing of gene therapies expanding at Boston-area hospitals
Years after it was hyped, vilified for the death of a teenager, and then mostly forgotten by the general public, ...
Scientists find genetic switch that may fuel breast cancer’s spread
Despite improvements in medical technology, doctors still struggle to tell which breast cancers are highly aggressive and likely to spread ...
Do patents hinder research?
The following is an excerpt. It is an argument frequently made by businesses: Intellectual property protection is essential to spur ...
Selected books on genetics
The following is an editorial summary. Featured books in this review article include: “Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature ...
Human Genome Project leader weighs in on Supreme Court gene patenting case
The following is an edited excerpt. Late last year, the nation’s highest court said it would consider a legal challenge ...
Are we getting dumber?
It’s easy to think of history as a march of progress, with humans growing smarter and more capable over time ...
Genetic study stirs hope for lung cancer patients
The first large and comprehensive study of the genetics of a common lung cancer finds that more than half the ...
Should pregnant women be offered genome screening for their unborn baby?
With researchers announcing this week that they were able to sequence the genome of a fetus using only a blood ...
Native Americans migrated to the New World in three waves, Harvard-led DNA analysis shows
An exhaustive study of DNA taken from dozens of Native American groups that span from Canada to the tip of ...
Human microbiome project provides census of thousands of microbes that live in and on us
It was a major feat when more than a decade ago, scientists deciphered the first human genome, containing 22,000 or ...
Risk and DNA: In search of the money gene
What makes someone want to start a business? That was what the young economist Philipp Koellinger was trying to figure ...
