A funny thing happened on the way to this week’s blog post. I’d planned a guest post from a father who very…
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post Another Blind Boy Sees the Light, Thanks to Gene TherapyRead more
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post NextCODE Health Mines deCODE’s Data, and More, to Catalyze Clinical DiagnosisRead more
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 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…