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Justin Schleede reaches onto a black lab bench to pick up a tray of small plastic tubes.
"These are saliva...
"If proven to be safe, we believe preventive gene editing could be one of the most important health technologies of...
As morbid as it sounds, life insurance companies want to know how long you’ll be around, and figuring that out...
In 1996, a group of European researchers found that a certain gene, called SLC6A4, might influence a person’s risk...
While it’s fun to submit DNA to a testing service to learn you might be 10 percent Nigerian, Norwegian, or...
In late November 2018, the Chinese scientist He Jiankui ignited a media firestorm with the birth announcement of “healthy” twin...
A panel of government-appointed experts in Germany agreed unanimously that the human germline — DNA that is inherited by children...
In 2014, 23andMe tests revealed a decades-old secret in Indianapolis: A local fertility doctor named Donald Cline had secretly used...
When you submit your DNA to a personal genomics company like Ancestry or 23andme, you’re not just uncovering secrets about...
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) – Despite prior court rulings that police can collect DNA samples from people arrested but not convicted...