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Rare genetic disorder that ended college star’s pro hoops career hopes shines light on Marfan syndrome
Four days before Baylor University basketball star Isaiah Austin hoped to be drafted into the NBA, his dreams of playing ...
Kids who don’t cry: New genetic disorder discovered
What do you do when your baby lies limp in your arms, staring blankly into the distance while never crying? ...
DNA evidence frees men from prison, decades later
Two men behind bars for more than half their lives over a triple murder walked free this week after DNA ...
Salk Institute scientist claims GMO’s pose hidden dangers
A common claim made is that GM foods have been proved safe to eat and that there is a global ...
The latest on Google’s battle plan against death: analyzing the genetics of aging
Google Venture's Calico plans to capitalize take on the problem of aging and age-related disease by studying genetics. What's known ...
Parents push for standardized screening of Jewish genetic diseases
Carrier screening programs for Jewish genetic diseases have seen success in the past, she says; in the 1970s and '80s, ...
The next big thing in pregnancy: Sequencing your baby’s genome
Every year roughly 4 million pregnancies go through the same battery of prenatal health checks: analyses of the mother's blood ...
James Watson: ‘DNA was my only gold rush’
The following is an edited excerpt. Having shared the Nobel Prize for the discovery with Crick and Maurice Wilkins in ...
The race to a $100 genome
The following is an edited excerpt. Sequencing is a way of "reading" DNA molecules -- two strands twisted together to ...
Human stem cell cloning: ‘Holy Grail’ or techno-fantasy?
The following is an excerpt. There is definitely something special about this idea of "therapeutic cloning," something that has a ...
Unlocking crime using biological keys
The following is an excerpt. Bad brains result in bad behavior. A new body of knowledge is documenting beyond reasonable ...
Get ready for the risks of genetic testing
The following is an edited excerpt. Would you want to know your future if science could tell it to you? ...
Opinion: My family farm isn’t under “corporate control”
The following is an excerpt. As a farmer who is active on social media, I’ve seen a lot of posts ...
New prenatal genetic test offers parents more answers
Three studies released Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine highlight the use of microarray testing as the latest technology ...
How you vote may be in your genes
Ever wonder why we vote the way we do? Is it the influence of family? Or is it because of ...
Is personalized medicine a myth?
The intersection of technology, science, medicine and design has led to an explosion of apps for monitoring blood pressure, glucose ...
