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Can DNA predict a person’s facial features? New forensic tool gets us closer, by deducing hair, eye and skin color

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Could DNA testing predict faces to go with found body parts? ...
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Hemophilia B—the blood disease that plagued Europe’s royal families—might be treatable using gene editing

Ricki Lewis | 
Researchers are hoping to use gene editing to create more effective and less expensive treatment options--compared to gene therapy--for people ...
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Pharmacogenetics and depression: Genetic screening could eliminate trial-and-error approach to medications

Ricki Lewis | 
Antidepressants may soon be added to the growing list of medications genetically matched to patients most likely to respond — ...
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DNA for the greater good: Should the police have access to consumer DNA databases?

Ricki Lewis | 
There is an urgent need for international guidelines and policies ...
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How this promising gene therapy for a rare neuromuscular disease was fueled by passionate parents and a dog

Ricki Lewis | 
The gene therapy will be too late for Joshua Frase. But it will be his legacy ...
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‘The broken promise of anonymity’? Bioethicist’s call to guard identity of sperm and egg donors is misguided

Ricki Lewis | 
Dr. Pennings’ opinion fails to capture the complexity of donation ...
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Key to fecal transplants could revolve around ‘recipe and preparation’

Ricki Lewis | 
Fecal transplants are slowly becoming a more effective, and more palatable option for various gut disorders, such as IBS or ...
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Why a proposed DNA data protection plan is a great idea that may be too late to help

Ricki Lewis | 
Legal experts, biologists and policy analysists are calling for DNA data regulation, but the cat is already out of the ...
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Finding echoes of cancer journey in Netflix’s Black Mirror: Bandersnatch

Ricki Lewis | 
The 'choose your own path' nature of Bandersnatch echoes a journey with breast cancer ...
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Genetics pioneer James Watson stripped of final honorary titles over race views

Ricki Lewis | 
It's the latest chapter of the dark side of Dr. Watson ...
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Hiding in plain sight: Exploring Parkinson’s link to the appendix

Ricki Lewis | 
Lurking in the layers of the human appendix lie deposits of alpha-synuclein, a protein prone to gumminess, like sticky rice ...
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Genes and giraffes: What do those spots tell us?

Ricki Lewis | 
Giraffes' spotty exterior provides more than camouflage ...
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Not-so-mad scientists and why they’re making human body parts

Ricki Lewis | 
Halloween brings a cornucopia of candy body parts, so it’s a good time to review recent advances in organoid technology ...
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Why we may need a ‘Noah’s Ark’ of microbes to protect our health in the future

Ricki Lewis | 
Preserving human microbiomes today, especially the more diverse ones from traditional peoples in developing nations, may provide treatments for diseases ...
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‘Voluntary euthanasia’: Are we ready to harvest organs while donors are still alive?

Ricki Lewis | 
In the dystopian society of Nobel prizewinner Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, cloned people are raised to provide organs for ...
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Gene silencing through RNA interference scores first drug approval

Ricki Lewis | 
The Food and Drug Administration recently approved the first drug based on RNA interference (RNAi). Unlike media darlings gene therapy ...
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Were there two migration routes into North America? Genetics meets archaeology

Ricki Lewis | 
Popular accounts of the peopling of North America paint a picture of a lone long-ago trek across the Bering Land ...
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DNA testing to reunite separated families—what we learned from the grandmothers of Argentina

Ricki Lewis | 
The idea to use DNA testing to reunite families separated at US borders due to the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” ...
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Alternate facts: Why are we still telling women that abortion causes breast cancer?

Ricki Lewis | 
On June 26th, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of crisis pregnancy centers that were challenging a California law, the Reproductive ...
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Battling constipation with synthetic biology and DNA manipulation

Ricki Lewis | 
Ateam of researchers has cleverly combined synthetic biology, recombinant DNA technology and microbiome manipulation to fashion a novel targeted treatment ...
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Can the Egyptian fruit bat’s unusual genome show us how to fight deadly Marburg virus?

Ricki Lewis | 
The Egyptian fruit bat's immune system enables it to peacefully co-exist with Marburg virus, which can cause a swiftly deadly ...
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Making sense of crowdfunding for unapproved stem cell treatments

Ricki Lewis | 
When FDA approval for a technology or treatment lags behind demand, crowdfunding steps in. Desperate patients or their families launch ...
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Genetic privacy and the case of the Golden State Killer—diving into the science

Ricki Lewis | 
Consumer DNA testing companies are rushing to reassure customers about the security of their genetic information following news that DNA ...
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Protein therapy in the womb overrides genetic glitch hampering teeth development, ability to sweat

Ricki Lewis | 
Imagine a fetus gulping in amniotic fluid and drinking a drug that restores the ability to form teeth, sweat glands ...
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Tale of two families: Exome sequencing and faster diagnosis of rare disorders

Ricki Lewis | 
Sailing from New York City to London a century ago took days; today the trip takes hours by air. Similarly, ...
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Viewpoint: Rampage movie offers twisted take on CRISPR gene editing

Ricki Lewis | 
Is a film based on a video game with fleeting mentions of a biotech buzzword compelling sci-fi? No. But I ...
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Examining the curious genes behind ‘magic mushrooms’

Ricki Lewis | 
"One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small,” sang Grace Slick in Jefferson Airplane’s classic White Rabbit, conjuring ...
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