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The Slippery Meaning of Angelina and BRCA

Dalton Conley | Posted 06.19.2013 | Science
Read More: Social Science, Supreme Court, Science, Angelina Jolie, Genetics, Brca, Angelina Jolie Mastectomy, Angelina Jolie Breast Cancer, Science News
Dalton Conley

Before long the gene for breast cancer may be associated with lower odds of contracting the disease thanks to the steps women with the now-dangerous alleles take to mitigate their risk. In the not-so-distant future, BRCA1 mutations may predict mastectomies, not breast cancer.

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SOLVED: Mystery Of Zoo Celebrity's Curious Color

LiveScience | Stephanie Pappas | Posted 06.17.2013 | Science
Read More: Snowflake Albino Gorilla, Video, Albino Gorilla Inbred, Albino Gorilla, Daily Discovery, Weird Science, Biology, Gorillas, Genetics, Mammals, Inbreeding, Snowflake Gorilla, Science News

A famous albino gorilla that lived for 40 years at the Barcelona Zoo got its white coloring by way of inbreeding, new research shows. Snowflake was ...

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FREAKY: Is THIS The Future Of The Human Face?

The Huffington Post | Posted 06.11.2013 | Science
Read More: Human Faces, Video, Engineering Humans, Human Facial Features, Human Evolution, Biology, Faces of Future Photos, Future Humans, Genetics, Evolution, Nickolay Lamm, Faces of the Future, Human Genome, Science News

What might humans look like in the distant future? Nickolay Lamm, a Pittsburgh-based artist, has created four sci-fi-like illustrations showing one...

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Rachel Tepper

What Spells Difference Between Adventurous, Picky Eaters?

HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Tepper | Posted 06.10.2013 | Science
Read More: Picky Eaters, Adventurous Eating Genes, Genes, Biology, Adventurous Eater, Anthropology, Genetics, Picky Eating Genes, Adventurous Eaters, Adventurous Eating, Science News

"You know what I’d like is the apple pie a la mode," Meg Ryan's character says to a befuddled waitress in the 1989 film, "When Harry Met Sally." "Bu...

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Glow-In-Dark Plant Project Sparks Major Debate

natureheader | Ewen Callaway | Posted 06.05.2013 | Science
Read More: Gmos, Plants, Plants That Glow, Biology, Weird Science, Glowing Plant Seeds, Glowing Plants, Genetics, Genetically Modified Organisms, Genetic Engineering, Glowing Plant, Science News

Among the many projects attracting crowd-sourced funding on the Kickstarter website this week are a premium Kobe beef jerky, a keyboard instrument cal...

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The 'Angelina Effect' in Four Charts

Brian Reid | Posted 06.04.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Genetic Testing, Angelina Jolie BRCA1, Mastectomy, Angelina Jolie, Breast Cancer, Genetics, Angelina Jolie Double Mastectomy, Brca1, Gene Testing, Breast Cancer Genetic Testing, Angelina Jolie Breast Cancer, Healthy Living News
Brian Reid

Angelina provides an interesting look into how the famous can drive conversations about health. She is a celebrity of status, and her story is both dramatic and complicated.

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Genetic Testing and the Fight for a Cure

Rep. Louise Slaughter | Posted 05.31.2013 | Women
Read More: Congress, Obamacare, Breast Cancer Screenings, Mastectomy, Public Health, Affordable Care Act, Genetics, Breast Cancer, Angelina Jolie Double Mastectomy, Double Mastectomy, Women News
Rep. Louise Slaughter

Prior to the passage of the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act, women who suspected they might be at risk for hereditary breast cancer were often advised not to undergo genetic testing because they could lose their job, health insurance or both if the test confirmed they were at risk.

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Six Action Rules From Business Genetics

Richard Koch | Posted 05.28.2013 | Business
Read More: Success, Richard Koch, Genetics, Business, Richard-Koch, Business News
Richard Koch

Last week we saw that value is driven most fundamentally not by companies but by valuable economic information -- "business genes" -- that companies make themselves the best vehicles for. So what should executives do, to help their companies and their careers?

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EXPLAINED: How Rare Tiger Got Its Coat

Posted 05.24.2013 | Science
Read More: Tigers, Video, Genes, White Tiger Coat, Biology, Pigment Genes, White Tiger Fur, White Tiger Genetics, Genetics, White Tigers, White Tiger Gene, Mammals, Animals, Captive Animals, Science News

By: Tanya Lewis, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 05/23/2013 12:21 PM EDT on LiveScience The strikingly beautiful, milky coats of white tigers ...

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Angelina Jolie, Doctors, Patenting Genes, and You

Robert Klitzman, M.D. | Posted 05.20.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Angelina Jolie, Breast Cancer, Gene Patents, Genes, Obamacare, Health, Health Care Reform, Genetics, Cancer, Health Care, Patents, Genetic Testing, Angelina Jolie Mastectomy, Breast Cancer Gene, Angelina Jolie Bilateral Mastectomy, Angelina Jolie Breast Cancer, Gene Testing, Healthy Living News
Robert Klitzman, M.D.

Angelina Jolie's openness about her decision to undergo mastectomies because of the BRCA1 mutation can help inspire countless women to face this difficult decision. Yet several obstacles exist that deserve attention, concerning doctors and costs of testing.

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Prenatal Testing: It's Just Information, Not Answers -- or a Guarantee

Claire McCarthy, M.D. | Posted 05.16.2013 | Parents
Read More: Expectant Parents, Pregnancy, Prenatal, Claire McCarthy, Amniocentesis Ultrasound, Prenatal Testing, Testing for Genetic Disorders, Family Planning, Genetic Disorders, Genetics, Parents News
Claire McCarthy, M.D.

The pace of genetic research is stunning and exciting. But there is more to life and health than genetics.

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Change Your Genes With... Meditation?

Aditi Nerurkar, MD | Posted 05.16.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Mind-Body Connection, Meditation, Genetics, Genes, Telomeres, Telomerase, Genomics, Meditation and Telomeres, Meditation and Cells, Meditation and Cellular Activity, Meditation and Genes, Meditation Telomeres, Meditation Benefits, Meditation and Genetics, Healthy Living News
Aditi Nerurkar, MD

It really does sound like an infomercial, doesn't it? Emerging research suggests a relationship between the practice of meditation and genetic changes. Let's consider the evidence.

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Stem Cell Advance May Bring New Treatments For Serious Illnesses

AP | MALCOLM RITTER | Posted 05.16.2013 | Science
Read More: Human Embryonic Stem Cells, Video, Stem Cell, Biology, Stem Cells, Genetics, Stem Cells Cloned, Stem Cell Research, Embryonic Stem Cells, Cloning, Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Science News

NEW YORK -- Scientists have finally recovered stem cells from cloned human embryos, a longstanding goal that could lead to new treatments for such ill...

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Investigating A Curious Narcolepsy Case

Stanford Center for Sleep Sciences and Medicine | Posted 05.24.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Narcolepsy Studies, Narcolepsy Patients, Dementia, Genes, Brain Disorders, Genetic Research, Sleep Studies, Genetics, Dementia Care, Narcolepsy Research, Narcolepsy, Sleep Research, Sleep Disorders, Sleep, Healthy Living News
Stanford Center for Sleep Sciences and Medicine

Although this was clearly more than just narcolepsy, it was possible that the constellation of symptoms was due to a small genetic alteration that included both a narcolepsy-causing gene and a mitochondrial gene located close by on the same chromosome.

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Has 'Junk DNA' Mystery Finally Been Solved?

Posted 05.13.2013 | Science
Read More: Dna, Video, Daily Discovery, Junk DNA, Encode, Molecular Biology, What Is Junk Dna, Genetics, Evolutionary Biology, Human Genome, Science News

By: Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 05/12/2013 02:25 PM EDT on LiveScience One person's trash may be another person's treasure, but...

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The Top 3 Benefits of Genetic Testing

Ameer Rosic RHN, FDN | Posted 05.10.2013 | Science
Read More: Genetics Testing, Genetics, Epigenetics, Science News
Ameer Rosic RHN, FDN

Are you at-risk for Alzheimer's? Are you predisposed to Parkinson's? Do you have an increased chance of cancer? A new breakthrough in science lets you...

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What Do These People All Have In Common?

Posted 05.08.2013 | Science
Read More: Dna, Europe Dna, European Ancestors, Europeans, Video, Common Ancestors, Shared Common Ancestor, Europe Common Ancestor, European Ancestry, European Dna, Dna Europe, Genetics, Europe, Science News

By: Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 05/07/2013 05:43 PM EDT on LiveScience Europeans all shared a common ancestor just 1,000 years ...

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Cloning

Paul Ratner | Posted 05.06.2013 | Weird News
Read More: Dna, TV Canada, Television, Canada Tv, Bbc, BBC America, Ethics, Science, Orphan Black, Genetics, Cloning, Culture, Orphan Black Tatiana Maslany, Weird News News
Paul Ratner

In no small measure inspired by BBC America's Canadian-produced tricky and fun new series Orphan Black, which centers heavily on cloning what-ifs, I came back to this simmering question (thanks, TV!) -- why not cloning?

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'Journalist Bait' Study Deemed A Fraud

natureheader | Posted 05.06.2013 | Science
Read More: Fake Science, Video, Fake Data, Fraud Study, Academic Fraud, Study Fraud, Robert Trivers, Sexual Selection, Motion Capture, Dance Study, Anthropology, Genetics, Science News

By Eugenie Samuel Reich Few researchers have tried harder than Robert Trivers to retract one of their own papers. In 2005, Trivers, an evolutionary b...

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ACMG Recommendations Are a Controversial but Necessary Step Towards Genomic Medicine

Robert C. Green, MD, MPH | Posted 05.03.2013 | Science
Read More: Incidental Findings, Genetics, Medicine, Genetic Sequencing, Human Genome, Acmg, Science News
Robert C. Green, MD, MPH

Doctors don't ask for your consent to look over the entire x-ray or make a note of the suspicious lesion. And they certainly don't sit you down before every exam, x-ray or lab test and have a long discussion about all the thousands of possible incidental findings that might show up.

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Science Education Fuels Innovation

Anne Wojcicki | Posted 04.24.2013 | Impact
Read More: Genetic Literacy, National Science Foundation, 23andme, Dna, DNA Day, Genetics, Human Genome Project, Science Education, Impact News
Anne Wojcicki

April 25th is DNA Day. I know, you probably had no idea. If you are like a lot of Americans, you don't give much thought to DNA or genetic science in general. You should.

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Why Are Our Brains Lopsided? New Study Offers Answer

Posted 04.24.2013 | Science
Read More: Human Development, Neuroplasticity, Video, Brain, Human Evolution, Brain Development, Brain Science, Genetics, Asymmetrical Brain, Chimpanzees, Mri, Lopsided Brain, Science News

By: Tanya Lewis, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 04/23/2013 07:07 PM EDT on LiveScience The two halves of the human brain are not symmetrical....

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Ancient Europeans' Strange Gene Shift Has Scientists Puzzled

Posted 04.24.2013 | Science
Read More: Stone Age, Daily Discovery, Biology, Human Geography, Human Origins, Archaeology, Ancient Dna, Europeans Dna, Ancient Europe, Video, Europe Genetic History, Agricultural Revolution, Anthropology, Stonehenge, Genetics, Ancient Europeans, Science News

By: Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 04/23/2013 11:16 AM EDT on LiveScience The genetic lineage of Europe mysteriously transformed ab...

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Mapping Telomerase

Stig Egil Bojesen | Posted 04.22.2013 | Science
Read More: Telomerase-Activity, Telomere Length, Telomerase Mapping, Telomerase Gene Mapping, Stem Cells, Cancer Cure, Genetics, Cancer, Telomerase, Science News
Stig Egil Bojesen

Some weeks ago I gave birth to a child after being pregnant for more than four years. The birth was postponed several times, but finally it came; along with 12 brothers and sisters, and with more than 1,000 parents.

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Is Life Older Than Earth Itself?

Posted 04.18.2013 | Science
Read More: Dna, Origin of Life, Biology, Weird Science, Genome, Computers, Earth, Life, Moore's Law, Complexity Theory, Panspermia, Video, Math, Life Before Earth, Genetics, Evolution, Science News

By: Jillian Scharr, TechNewsDaily Staff Writer Published: 04/16/2013 06:08 PM EDT on TechNewsDaily Applying a maxim from computer science to biolo...

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