It is clear that very few people on this thread, including the author of the article, is science-literate. I am not sure they even understand what patenting a gene even means. People want the technology to improve our health, they just don't understand that we need to pay for it.

"Her cancer genes were taken"? Speaking as a geneticist, that makes zero sense. Yes, there were certainly unethical behavior surrounding the generation of HeLa cell lines, but she certainly does not have ownership over genes that every human has and a vaccine that took a huge amount of collective resources and prior…

I liked and was hopeful for Up All Night the first season - so many of my favorite people! - but somehow it never got past the initial growing pains, like the Mindy Project did (IMO).

Treat yo self

I was wandering around Berkeley a few months ago when I came upon a "women's hacker club". This made me really happy, as women are notoriously under-represented in the hacker community, and a support system seems like an awesome idea. Then I continued reading the sign, which specified it was a community for women who…

I'm about your size, and just this past weekend I had an H&M trip where i came home with sizes XS, 6, 8, and 10. I'm wearing the XS top with the size 10 pants right now. My philosophy to discount shopping is to try any size and not get discouraged (this works at nordstrom rack too; once got a size 0 dress and 30 jeans…

I know, they've been declaring Jen pregs for over a decade at this point, and it is silly. And I hate myself a little bit for actually thinking that - I've taken photos where I look like I'm in my second trimester and I have no kids. It's a super cute outfit - something I would totally wear as a non-pregnant lady.

I hate playing the is she/isn't she game - I'm uncomfortable scrutinizing women's bodies, especially since I've been incubating a beer baby since college - buuuut you may be on to something here.

BARF. I can't stand people who are so fixated on getting married they treat it like it's equivalent to things like apartments or careers. It's not. True, you are not going to meet anyone if you hole up in your apartment solo, but imitating Charlotte York isn't the best alternative. Live your life to the fullest, be…

whaaaaa??? I loved Oktoberfest, although we only went during the daylight hours during the week as per our local friends' advice. I don't recall having any bathroom issues; I just used the ones in the beer tents. The carnival rides were shitty, but they're for kids so...

If it makes you feel any better, we get that question from zero people at this point- and I'm 31, been married for ~3 years, finished grad school. We just made it extremely clear during the first few questions right after we got engaged that we are not interested in having or discussing children yet, and word got…

Maybe she is trying to convince herself? This is not the first article she has written about how young and fabulous she is/looks. I agree that she looks like an attractive woman in her 40s; I wish she would focus on how you can be hot at 40, rather than a hot woman in her 40s must look like she is 30.

You said it better than I could - and good thing, since my comment's been gray-zoned :/

I really want to spend all day comfort-reading babysitters club. They should be free classic downloads for kindle.

Well, that's not really accurate. A patent on a gene does not affect basic research; a pubmed search returns over 6000 papers on BRCA2. Since this is a naturally occurring sequence in the genome and not man-made, anyone can perform research on it. The issues that are being debated are the *applications* of the gene;…

Well sure, environment matters, but it's not worth a six-figure debt. If you truly want an education, you make it work. I can't imagine my immigrant parents or my immigrant husband turning down the scholarships they received from top US universities because they weren't the "right fit".

Yes. I dated a LOT more in college and my super early-20s, when the social structure of our college crowd was still intact, but as the saying goes "the goods were odd". I dated only about one guy a year afterwards, but one of them ended up being my husband.

WHAAAAAA...????

"Right fit" is a bunch of BS the overpriced private schools created to give them an edge over public universities. At 18, you need to be a grown-up and "fit" into whatever school you can afford to go to.

Yup - especially since we live in CA, which has awesome public universities, there is no effing way we're paying what I'm sure will be the equivalent of a condo by then on private school tuition.