As a parent who has logged more than my share of frustrating hours with the 'I Spy' series of books my kids love, I've learned …
Category: Genetics
Extraordinary Measures: a film about metabolic disease
The new CBS film Extraordinary Measures, which opens in wide release tonight, describes a father's struggle to save his children from Pompe disease, a rare …
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
From Science Insider today comes an announcement of a newly minted effort to sequence 10,000 vertebrate genomes. The Genome 10K Project aims to create a …
Lawsuit over human-gene patents goes to court
A first-of-its-kind lawsuit against the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and Salt Lake City-based Myriad Genetics, which holds patents to human genes known to detect …
Scientists decode Wilbur's DNA
New treatments for obesity, heart disease and skin disorders could be developed as a result of an international consortium's success in mapping the genome of …