Human Genome

High-Tech Human Genome Exhibit Coming To D.C.

AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 05.21.2012

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WASHINGTON — The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History is developing its first major exhibit on the human genome with a $3 million pl...

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Big Pharma Company Battles To Buy Gene Science Firm

Reuters | Ben Hirschler | Posted 04.25.2012

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By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) - Drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline said on Wednesday its $2.6 billion bid for long-time partner Human Genome...

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Gene Study Reveals Big Limitation Of DNA Mapping

AP | LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 04.02.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Gene scans for everyone? Not so fast. New research suggests that for the average person, decoding your own DNA may not turn out to be a ...

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Time for Another Human Genome Project?

Andrew Hessel | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Human Genome Project, Genome Sequencing, Human Genome Controversy, Read Human Genome, Write Human Genome, Dna Genome, DNA Sequencing, Human Genome, Science News
Andrew Hessel

The scientific charge to read a human genome started gaining traction 25 years ago. Now it may be time to think about writing one.

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WATCH: What Gorilla Genes Reveal About Human Evolution

AP | By ALICIA CHANG | Posted 05.07.2012

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LOS ANGELES -- Take a trip to the zoo and you can see gorillas are a lot like us. But a new DNA study says we're even more similar than scientists tho...

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A New Conception Of Wellness: Holistic Health

Deepak Chopra | Posted 04.10.2012

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Deepak Chopra

Holistic health has become inevitable. A piecemeal approach to wellness doesn't fit how your body works. It is no longer "alternative" medicine that concerns itself with broad issues of holistic wellness.

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The Higher Health -- A New Map For Prevention

Deepak Chopra | Posted 04.02.2012

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Deepak Chopra

America's obesity epidemic isn't improving because the information about how to reverse it didn't lead to motivation. The government can jiggle the food pyramid, but that won't matter as long as Americans haven't stepped on to the pyramid in the first place.

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Before You Are Pregnant

Anne Wojcicki | Posted 03.15.2012

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Anne Wojcicki

Currently insurance companies, by and large, pay for targeted carrier status genetic testing if it can be justified and if you are pregnant. But this timing is not optimal and the ancestry guesswork is often wrong. Consumers should have the choice to test before conception.

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More Evidence on the Real Nature of Evolutionary DNA Change

James A. Shapiro | Posted 03.07.2012

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James A. Shapiro

Conventional wisdom has it that the genetic changes underlying evolution are random accidents. Now that we have almost 60 years of DNA-based molecular genetics and genome sequencing behind us, a different picture has emerged.

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Literature Leaps into the 22nd Century, Lands Awkwardly

John Lundberg | Posted 11.17.2011

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John Lundberg

As scientists improve their ability to manipulate the genome, will a market might emerge for people who want to imprint quotes into their own DNA, or even their children's, as a sort of genetic tattoo?

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Study Links Spread Of Religion With 'Believer Gene'

Posted 05.25.2011

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By Al Webb Religion News Service LONDON -- A British university study suggests that people of strong faith can spread religion through a "believers' ...

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Made In The Image Of God: The Theological Implications Of Human Genomics -- Part 1

Dr. Denis Alexander | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dr. Denis Alexander

Do new discoveries in human genomics have any significance for the dialogue between science and religion in general, or for our sense of human uniqueness in particular?

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Why Your Genes Don't Determine Your Health

Mark Hyman, MD | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mark Hyman, MD

The decoding of the human genome at the dawn of the millennium carried the hope and promise of the beginning of the end of human suffering.

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Overcoming Genophobia

Misha Angrist | Posted 05.25.2011

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Misha Angrist

DNA in a test tube is prosaic: the "stuff of life" looks a lot like what emerges from a child's runny nose. But there has long been something taboo in that tube.

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Is There a Genie in the Genome?

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Katz, M.D.

My own hope for genomic advances lingers. But at its best, that hope was and is a small flicker in comparison to the luminous promise of lifestyle.

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What Genetics Can, and Can't, Tell Us

Stanton Peele | Posted 11.17.2011

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Stanton Peele

We have emerged into the post-genetic-inheritance era, where we are facing the limitations on what our DNA can tell us about ourselves and how we can modify our lives.

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Should A Book Pass The "Dead Tree" Test?

Amy Hertz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Amy Hertz

Do you feel strongly enough about the impact of what you have to say that you can live with cutting down trees to make your book?

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Don't "Protect" Us From Our Own Genetic Information

Megan Smolenyak | Posted 05.25.2011

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Megan Smolenyak

Unfortunately, there is a tendency towards a paternalistic attitude by certain groups in the medical professions who seek to limit access to medical information that is not directly under their control.

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"Reports of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated": Race and Genetics Ten Years After the Human Genome Project

Osagie K. Obasogie | Posted 05.25.2011

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Osagie K. Obasogie

This ten-year anniversary of the Human Genome Project is an opportunity to pause and think deeply before new technologies end up resurrecting a ghost from the past that may haunt us well into the next decade and beyond.

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TED Talks: Anne Wojcicki Of 23AndMe Discusses Consumer Genomics At TED MED 2009 (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Michael Macher | Posted 04.10.2012

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Here's a question: If you could find out whether you were genetically predisposed to a life-altering disease like Alzheimer's or breast cancer, would ...

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An Educated Medical Consumer: On Personal DNA Testing

Dr. Elaine Schattner | Posted 11.17.2011

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Dr. Elaine Schattner

My sense, as a physician and scientist, is that most of the personal genetics data that would be sold, or bought, is nearly useless to most individuals who are not ill.

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Neanderthal Genes: The Hidden Thread in Our Tapestry

Athena Andreadis, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

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Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.

The just-published draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome may reveal that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens indeed interbred when the latter first came out of Africa.

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Transformative Research and the Fruit Fly

James M. Gentile | Posted 11.17.2011

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James M. Gentile

Whenever anyone makes fun of understanding the fruit fly, remember that they may be investigating a disease that you wish would be defeated.

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MIT Student Discovers How To Fold Human Genome

The MIT Tech | Posted 05.25.2011

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Until recently, the process of how genomic DNA neatly folds itself into the nucleus of a cell -- twisting and contorting into a work of astonishingly ...

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Gene Test Claims To Show What Diet Works Best

AP | MARILYNN MARCHIONE | Posted 11.17.2011

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Diet not working? Blame your genes. That's the pitch behind a new test that claims to show whether people will do better on a low-fat or a low-carb we...

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