by Jack El-Hai This week’s New England Journal of Medicine has four articles about the new precision in reproductive genetic testing. (See…
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post Cialis Comes Full Circle — Help for Muscular DystrophyRead more
Becker muscular dystrophy is a muscle wasting disease that is rarer and less severe than the more familiar Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Both…
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post JIM: More Compelling Than GATTACARead more
For 15 years, the film GATTACA has been synonymous with “genetic dystopian future,” and has become a mainstay of genetics classrooms. But…
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post Mice with Human Liverlets Test New DrugsRead more
“Scientists at Stanford have produced mice with human brains, pigs with human blood flowing through their veins, and a human born to…
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post Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing: A New ViewRead more
San Francisco — On a Thursday night in October 2007, I sat with hundreds of geneticists at the American Society of Human…
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post Why I Don’t Want to Know My Genome SequenceRead more
Famous folk have been writing about their genome sequences for a few years now. But when I received two such reports at…
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post Male DNA in Female Brains RevisitedRead more
“Some women actually have men on the brain” beckoned the headline from the LA Times on September 27, echoing an article in PLoS…
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post Prenatal Genetic Testing: When is it “Toxic Knowledge”?Read more
When I was a fetus, I was left alone. My amniotic fluid and chorionic villi were untouched, and I arrived apparently normal…
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post From Rapid-Aging to Common Heart DiseaseRead more
Last week the DNA Science blog looked at how Dr. Francis Collins became involved in the quest to discover the genetic…
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post Progress for ProgeriaRead more
Surely progeria is among the saddest of genetic diseases, and one of the rarest. The recent finding that a shelved cancer drug…
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post Human Embryonic Stem Cells Finally Reach Clinical Trials: Maurie’s StoryRead more
On July 11, Wills Eye Institute ophthalmologist Carl Regillo delicately placed 100,000 cells beneath the retina of 52-year-old Maurie Hill’s left eye…