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Ethics and genetics in the digital age

When five Texas parents found out in 2009 that the Department of State Health Services had saved DNA samples collected through its newborn screening program and was sharing them with researchers (and,...

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Digging yields clues

Nature vs. nurture has long been one of the great debates in science — is behavior hard-wired into the brain, or determined by environment? In at least some cases, Harvard researchers are showing, how...

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A hidden genetic code

Harvard scientists say they’ve solved a mystery that’s nearly as old as science’s understanding of the genetic code. Though the genetic code, the cell’s set of rules for transcribing DNA into RNA and...

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New tool calculates genetic risk for obesity

By analyzing millions of DNA variations in the human genome, researchers have developed a “polygenic score” for obesity, a quantitative tool that predicts an individual’s inherited risk for becoming...

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