Bonnie Rochman
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Should we worry about an era of ‘designer babies?’
[Editor's Note: Bonnie Rochman is a science journalist and the author of the new book, The Gene Machine: How Genetic Technologies ...
Getting a head start: What parents can learn from prenatal genetic testing
{Editor's note: Excerpts are from an interview with Bonnie Rochman, science journalist and author of the book The Gene Machine: How Genetic Technologies ...
Snapshots of patients’ faces may help identify genetic diseases
Many genetic conditions have a “face”—a distinctive constellation of features that provides a clue to a potential diagnosis. But identifying ...
Family selects for children with lower genetic cancer risk
To shield any future children from the fear she harbors of getting breast cancer, Katie Dowdy underwent a controversial procedure ...
Why moms share breast cancer genetic test results with kids
In a study involving 221 mothers in the study led by researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, most mothers who learned ...
Parents grapple with delving into their kids’ DNA
This week’s TIME cover story (available to subscribers here) asks a simple question with a complicated answer. Sophisticated DNA testing ...
Children and DNA
DNA provides the operating instructions for our cells that influence everything from a person’s hair color to susceptibility to disease ...
Test your DNA for diseases: No doctor required
When Anne Wojcicki’s son was a baby, she ran a swab across the inside of his cheek, collecting DNA to ...
