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Personal genomics and accidental paternity tests
What happens when your 23andMe results reveal that your brother is your uncle and your father isn't your father? ...
Can China really breed a crop of genetically selected geniuses?
The following is an edited excerpt. What if science offered a way to stack the odds in favor of a ...
Why collecting DNA from criminals won’t help solve crimes
The following is an excerpt. [When it comes to solving crime] bigger is better. Add arrestee profiles to the database ...
It’s time to stop obsessing about the dangers of genetic information
The personal genomics horse has bolted, yet many members of the medical community are still trying to shut the barn ...
Leading anti-GMO activist’s confession: I was completely wrong to oppose GMOs
If you fear genetically modified food, you may have Mark Lynas to thank. By his own reckoning, British environmentalist helped ...
Food movement needs to follow the money, not waste time on labels
Over the past several years I have spent a great deal of time in high-security, limited-access genetic modification laboratories. While ...
Is the White House interfering with a scientific review?
Leaked documents from the FDA suggest that the first transgenic animal to be considered for federal approval in the U.S ...
Are GM foods safe? Opponents are skeptical
Are the emotionally charged, politicized discourse on GMOs mired in the kind of fever swamps that have polluted climate science ...
Prop 37: Pro-GM writer calls the California GMO labeling initiative a “misleading campaign”
The race is on to define Proposition 37, the ballot initiative that would require labels for most genetically modified foods ...
Muscular dystrophy, Cri du Chat, “immigration delay disease”: When DNA fails
We’ve seen already how freely genetics borrows from grammar books to describe how DNA works. Linguistic analogies also help make ...
Death of “Frankenfood”?
For more than a decade, Europe has faced fierce debate over genetically modified organisms—specifically, consumer crops that have had their ...
How will abortion politics be effected by advent of advanced DNA screening ?
Today, if you’re pregnant with a defective fetus, you won’t know about the problem till you’re well along. At 10 ...
The future of food: GMOs
But most of the latest advancements in food technology go beyond dessert. Rather, scientists are motivated by an impending agricultural ...
Will Gattaca come true?
Noninvasive, early fetal tests for sex, paternity and chromosomal conditions will change pregnancy dramatically- and raise tricky ethical questions.A scientist ...
Mom: ‘I’d never buy organics because I’m afraid there are dangerous pesticides on conventional produce’
YOU NEED TO SAY IN AN EDITOR'S NOTE WHO THIS 'MOM' IS When my son was a baby, organic was a ...
