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genetics stories: 87 news summaries

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Pharmaceutical Farming Generates Hopes and Fears

Benefits weighed against risk of food-supply contamination

Apr 30, 07 11:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - The battle over genetic modification has a new player: "pharming," or pharmaceutical farming, which uses genetically modified plants to mass-produce drug compounds relatively inexpensively. By altering common plants—for instance, tobacco, which can be engineered to produce an HIV drug—researchers say pharming could transform the treatment of... More »

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medicine • food • health • genetics • pharming • pharmaceutical companies • genetically modified crops • plants

Embryos Screened for Cancer Risk

Targeting breast cancer gene raises fears
of "designer babies"

Apr 26, 07 10:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - The British government is poised to OK a procedure that screens embryos for genes that greatly increase the risk—but do not necessarily cause—breast cancer. Two couples with strong family histories of the disease are expected to pioneer the technique, already approved in principle, and crank up the debate... More »

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cancer • breast cancer • genetics • science • designer baby • in vitro fertilization • genetic testing • genetic screening • embryo

Drug Targets Hundreds of Disorders

Magic bullet hits mutations that prompt 1,800 genetic diseases

Apr 23, 07 8:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - A magic bullet that could treat cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy, hemophilia and more than 1,800 other genetic disorders could be available by 2009. Lee Sweeney of UPenn, leader of the team developing the drug, tells the Times of London: “It doesn’t just target one mutation that causes... More »

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medicine • health • genetics • disease • muscular dystrophy • cystic fibrosis • hemophilia • medical research • PTC124 • mutation • genetic mutation

British Scientists
Find Fat Gene

Answer to the waistline gap may be in the chromosomes, researchers say

Apr 13, 07 11:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - British scientists have for the first time identified a gene that contributes to garden-variety obesity, supporting ancient anecdotal evidence that birthright, not just lifestyle, shapes stomachs.  Although they can't say exactly how the gene, called FTO, works, the 16% of white Europeans carrying two "fat" variations of it... More »

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obesity • health • genetics • FTO • science • research • waistline

Sperm Made From Bone Marrow

Scientists may be able to produce sperm from women's bone marrow

Apr 13, 07 8:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Scientists are getting closer to removing men from the conception equation, announcing yesterday that they have produced early-stage sperm cells from male bone marrow. Now the team of British researchers is seeking ethical approval to try the same thing with women. More »

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gender • pregnancy • medical breakthrough • fertility • adoption • health • women's health • genetics • reproduction • sperm • lesbians • science

Twins Found to Be "Semi-identical"

Children neither fraternal nor identical

Mar 30, 07 6:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - A new kind of twin has been discovered, neither strictly identical nor fraternal. Now toddlers, the babies look identical but one is anatomically male while the other has ambiguous genitalia. Genetic tests show the children are identical on their mother's side but share only half their father's DNA. More »

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gender • pregnancy • motherhood • health • twins • genetics • DNA

NASA Shutters Ideas Factory  

Mar 22, 07 8:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - In a cost-cutting move, NASA is shutting down its futuristic think tank, source of way-ahead-of-the-curve ideas, many of them worthy of a Star Trek script. Closing the Institute for Advanced Concepts will save $4 million out of NASA’s $16 billion dollar budget. But former NASA scientist Keith Cowing describes... More »

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technology • NASA • space exploration • genetics • science • planet • space • think tank • Institute for Advanced Concepts • Keith Cowing • NIAC • deep space

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