Enlarge this image Gregor Johann Mendel (1822 – 1884) the priest and botanist whose work laid the foundation of the study of…
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April 17, 2019 — In 1971, a boy was born in Texas with a rare genetic defect that robbed him of an…
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Enlarge this image There was an uproar in 2018 when a scientist in China, He Jiankui, announced that he had successfully used…
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Scientists Call For Global Moratorium On Creating Gene-Edited Babies
by Rob Stein March 13, 2019Enlarge this image There was an uproar in 2018 when a scientist in China, He Jiankui, announced that he had successfully used…
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Medical Detectives: The Last Hope For Families Coping With Rare Diseases
by Lesley McClurg December 17, 2018Enlarge this image Seven-year-old Carson Miller (left), and his brother, 5-year-old Chase Miller (right), both have a degenerative brain disease called MEPAN…
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Easy DNA Identifications With Genealogy Databases Raise Privacy Concerns
by Rob Stein October 11, 2018Enlarge this image DNA sleuthing helped identify Joseph James DeAngelo, the suspected East Area Rapist, who was arraigned in a Sacramento, Calif.,…
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Enlarge this image In these two two-cell mouse embryos, the surface of the embryos is outlined in orange, the DNA in the…
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Biologists Trace Genetic Roots Of Evolution, One Cell At A Time
by Nell Greenfieldboyce March 15, 2018Enlarge this image Colored transmission electron micrograph of a section through an Escherichia coli bacterium. This rod-shaped bacterium moves via its hair-like…