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 Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing: A New ViewRead more
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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…