WHEN Andres Moreno-Estrada began studying genetics back in the early 2000s, the high cost of sequencing DNA was the biggest barrier...
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A single cell.
A global business worth billions.
A trade that can bring rewards—or human costs that cannot be measured...
Updates to South African research ethics guidelines which recognize significant potential for treating genetic diseases through heritable human genome editing...
A study has raised concerns that a type of genetic database that is increasingly popular with researchers could be exploited...
Former president Donald Trump, in his inimitable way, has done at least one service to the cause of honesty. In...
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Donald Trump's fascination with genetics, especially his...
Discovering your genetic history can be as simple as spitting into a test tube, but what happens when your data...
Rare and fatal, the genetic disease known as cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) devastates the brain in young boys. A mutation on...
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It was...
Student Zoe Davis, 20, was just weeks into her junior year when she landed back in the hospital with severe...