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CRISPR gene editing. It's gone from an obscure biotech term to a household name in the past few years, in no small part due to a scientist who last year…
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Nearly four out of five people represented in human genetic research are of European decent. That’s the result of a recent analysis that also found that…
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An international group of scientists and legal scholars are warning that a federal research program called Insect Allies could unintentionally lead to…
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There are many private testing services that will decode your DNA, catalog the foreign chemicals in your blood, or identify the bacteria living in and on…
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Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket are among the nation’s most sought-after summer destinations. They’re also hotspots for Lyme disease. And now, they’re…
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Cystic fibrosis is a common genetic disease, relatively speaking. About one in 25 to 30 Caucasians are carriers of a cystic fibrosis mutation. But there…