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Adapted from Mitochondrial DNA at
National Human Genome Research Institute
Recently, media outlets around the world have been reporting on...
A newly available kind of genetic testing, called polygenic embryo screening, promises to screen for conditions that can include cancer...

Will social inequality soon be programmed into our DNA?
The chasm between rich and poor in the world has become...

A word to the wise: Read the complete terms of service.
Don’t use the AncestryDNA testing service without actually reading the...

DNA is what makes us who we are. In humans, our genetic makeup is 99.9 percent similar to the person...

Hastings Center president Mildred Solomon delivered a keynote address at the Future of Medicine conference, a national health care conference...

China appears to be laying the groundwork for the mass collection of DNA samples from residents of a restive, largely...

It has been about three months since Terrell Gills’s release from jail, and there are still sleepless nights and days...

He made the emotional plea to his colleagues: Pass this bill.
“It might give somebody like my wife a chance...

Nearly 40 years after the world was jolted by the birth of the first test-tube baby, a new revolution in...