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Cancer cure? Patients’ blood reprogrammed to destroy diseased cells
The blood cells of cancer patients, reprogrammed by doctors to attack their leukemia and re-infused back into the patients’ veins, ...
Italian stem cell ‘doctor’ selling snake oil to sick kids
A three-year-old Italian boy who suffers from a rare and incurable degenerative disorder called Krabbe disease received a stem cell ...
Tracking genes that up suicide risk with antidepressant use
For years, it's been a controversial side effect of antidepressants: for all the patients helped by the drugs, there was ...
Why are some children less prone to obesity? Epigenetics may offer clues
Recent studies on epigenetic inheritance are changing the way scientists view our biology, particularly for inherited factors like obesity or ...
Personal genetics company 23andMe launches television campaign
It's become easier and easier to discover who you are and where you came from thanks to DNA analysis, and now 23andMe ...
High tech DNA search for John Wayne Gacy’s lost victims
The following is an edited excerpt. Executed by the State of Illinois in 1994 for murdering 33 teenage boys and ...
