Genetic Testing Guidelines Under Fire
What should doctors do with results on genetic screening test that they hadn't been expecting?
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Stanton Peele: The Search for Mental Illness and Addiction in the Brain, Part I: The …
The ideal image many people had of the genome as a straightforward template that stamps out human beings in a predictable way was, and is, a fantasy.
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Human Papillomavirus Type 6 and 11 Genetic Variants Found in 71 Oral and Anogenital Epithelial …
by Jennifer A. Danielewski, Suzanne M. Garland, Jenny McCloskey, Richard J. Hillman, Sepehr N. Tabrizi Genetic variation of 49 human papillomavirus ...
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Game Changers: GenoSpace Helps Battle Disease By Storing Genomic Data
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts What he does: In the past six years, the cost of sequencing a human genome has gone from $10 million ...
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DNA key to breast cancer in spotlight
Even celebrities are mortal. They share our genes and, like us, cannot escape their inheritance. Angelina Jolie's dignified account of her encounter ...
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John Roughan: Genetic risk poses dilemma
Isn't it a little disturbing that genetic science has caused Angelina Jolie to remove a perfectly fine pair of breasts? A "faulty gene" gave her good ...
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Modern Lab Reaches Across the Ages to Resolve Plague DNA Debate
A plague from 1,500 years ago--a reputed ancestor to the Black Death--found its way back to relevance via labs in Germany and at Northern Arizona ...
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From Fearsome Predator to Man’s Best Friend
Scientists are zeroing in on some of the genes that were crucial to the rewiring of canine brains in the transition from wolves to domesticated ...
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Is Race Only A Social Construct?
Charles Mills makes the case dispassionately (and if you have the time, it’s well worth a full listen): Since I really want to get to the bottom of ...
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The Court Case Looming Behind Angelina Jolie's Breast Cancer Column
Alastair Grant/Reuters When Angelina Jolie disclosed Tuesday morning that she had undergone a preventative double mastectomy, she didn't just shine ...
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Should Human Genes Be Patentable?
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Angelina Jolie’s op-ed on preventive mastectomy backs gene tests that are subject of SCOTUS case
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