Like the mythical Phoenix bird reborn from its own ashes, deCODE Genetics, or at least its data, resurfaced in October in the…
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post NextCODE Health Mines deCODE’s Data, and More, to Catalyze Clinical DiagnosisRead more
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post Tracing African-American Roots Through DNARead more
AncestryDNA.com recently expanded its coverage of western Africa, enabling African-Americans to trace back to these areas, and to find cousins anywhere in…
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post From Gene Therapy to Chromosome Therapy: The New Gets Old as The Old Becomes NewRead more
BOSTON This week is the highlight of my year – the American Society of Human Genetics meeting. I headed straight to…
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post Keeping Up With the HomininsRead more
Late Sunday night I had just finished revising chapter 16, Human Origins, in my genetics textbook when the news releases for the…
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post How Craig Venter Created LifeRead more
Last week’s DNA Science post caused an uproar because I suggested that some people might think life begins at a period other than…
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post When Does a Human Life Begin? 17 TimepointsRead more
I rerun this most-read post about when human life begins every time that the discussion resurges, which is usually in the shadow…
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post A BRCA JourneyRead more
The day after PLOS Genetics asked me to blog in relation to Jane Gitschier’s interview with Mary-Claire King, my friend Lisa’s daughter Maya…
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post DNA Analysis of Chobani Yogurt: Guest Post by Nick ConleyRead more
Identification-by-DNA has had eclectic uses: outing fake sushi, detecting horsemeat in Ikea meatballs, and capturing a murderer thanks to a telltale hair…
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post DNA Science Blog is One Year Old!Read more
I’m coming up on the 52nd entry of the DNA Science Blog, and so below is a linked list of my sometimes…
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post A Very Special Birthday for a Young Man with Trisomy 18Read more
On September 10, Donnie Heaton will celebrate his 21rst birthday. But unlike most 21-year-olds, Donnie weighs only 55 pounds. He is one…
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post 10 Reasons Why Growing A Human Brain-in-a-Dish is TerrificRead more
“My brain! It’s my second favorite organ!” cried an aghast Woody Allen as his time-traveling character in 1973’s Sleeper, Miles Monroe, was…
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post Cholesterol Ups and DownsRead more
My favorite part of freelance science writing is when seemingly unrelated stories connect. The phenomenon is a metaphor for what’s happening in…