Apr 11 2018
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When the gene-editing technology CRISPR first made a splash back in 2012, it foretold a future in which curing…
Apr 9 2018
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In a provocative opinion published Monday in STAT, 23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki argues that home DNA test customers…
Apr 5 2018
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In the late 1990s, as Esteban Burchard was finishing up his medical training at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s…
Apr 4 2018
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It’s become a familiar story in the age of consumer DNA testing: A person spits into a test tube to learn more about…
Apr 2 2018
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From its perch on the Baltic Sea, the tiny former Soviet nation of Estonia has become an unlikely leader in all…
Mar 30 2018
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For nearly two years now, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has been quietly giving the go-ahead to a handful of…
Mar 30 2018
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Last May, a journal published results suggesting that the revolutionary gene-editing technique CRISPR might actually…
Mar 29 2018
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Last summer, a study claiming that the gene-editing technique CRISPR might actually be dangerous whipped labs around…
Mar 29 2018
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There is good money in pseudoscience.
Mar 28 2018
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If, at its most essential, the brain is a mass of wires and circuits, then when something goes wrong, logic suggests…
Mar 28 2018
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Not long ago, decrypting DNA was an expensive undertaking that could run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.…
Mar 27 2018
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Here’s a riddle: If an alien life form is, well, alien, how will we know what it is? DNA and RNA are the building…
Mar 26 2018
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It may look like something befitting Halloween’s Michael Myers, but the device pictured above is actually a…
Mar 21 2018
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People age at different paces. If you went gray before all your friends, or found wrinkles creeping along your…
Mar 21 2018
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Heath data is some of the most sensitive information out there, and modern life sometimes puts that information at…
Mar 21 2018
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Pregnancy is hard on the body. But for women with two specific genetic variants, it may be especially difficult.
Mar 21 2018
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On Tuesday, a 13-year-old boy from New Jersey was at the center of medical history as he became the first person in…
Mar 21 2018
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British doctors have taken a huge step towards curing a common form of age-related chronic eye condition.
Mar 20 2018
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Earlier this month, when consumer genetic testing giant 23andMe announced plans to roll out the first consumer test…
Mar 17 2018
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When inhaled, the drug albuterol opens up the airways of the lungs, providing fast-acting relief to the wheezing and…