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Genetics In The News

Nov 13, 2008
A Genetic Clue into Asthma

Oct 30, 2008
Obesity on the Brain

Oct 17, 2008
The Genetics of Balding

Oct 08, 2008
The Smelly Genetics of Love

Sep 25, 2008
Retriever Collapse Mystery Solved

Sep 05, 2008
A Step Towards Curing Type 1 Diabetes

Aug 08, 2008
Gene Copy Number Changes and Schizophrenia

Jul 25, 2008
Aging Genes

Jul 10, 2008
Making Embryonic Stem Cells Gets Even Easier

Jun 26, 2008
Our DNA Changes as we get Older

Jun 13, 2008
The Genetics of a Sweet Tooth

May 29, 2008
How Adult Cells are Turned into Embryonic Stem Cells

May 23, 2008
How Genes Changes Can Lead to Suicide

May 14, 2008
Too Much FGFR2 Can Increase Risk of Breast Cancer

Apr 25, 2008
Genetic Resistance to Malaria

Apr 11, 2008
Humans in the Americas Earlier than Previously Thought

Apr 04, 2008
Increased Lung Cancer Risk for Some Smokers

Mar 28, 2008
Severity of a Patient’s AIDS May Depend on Partner’s Immune System

Mar 21, 2008
Gene Lost, Autism Gained

Mar 07, 2008
How Stem Cells Turn into Skin Cells

Feb 29, 2008
Stress Can Increase the Mutation Rate in Fruit Flies

Feb 22, 2008
Small RNAs Mean Big Complexity

Feb 14, 2008
A Single DNA Difference in the HERC2 Gene Explains Blue Eyes

Feb 08, 2008
A Baby Step in Creating Life

Jan 24, 2008
Breakthrough of 2007: Human Genetic Variation

Jan 17, 2008
Wiping out Malaria with a GM Mosquito

Dec 20, 2007
Human Skin Color and Fish Genes

Dec 14, 2007
Personalized Stem Cells Treat Sickle Cell Anemia in Mice

Nov 29, 2007
Human Embryonic Stem (ES) Cells from Skin Cells

Nov 14, 2007
Monkey Cloning

Nov 09, 2007
Chatty Red-Haired Neanderthals?

Nov 02, 2007
Unraveling the Secrets of European Color

Oct 25, 2007
A Tiny Piece of Genetic Material Makes a Big Splash in Cancer Research

Oct 19, 2007
These Genes Make Me Eat Too Much

Oct 12, 2007
A Win by a Knockout

Oct 05, 2007
Starchy Diet, Extra Genes

Sep 07, 2007
Lovers not Fighters

Jul 20, 2007
Height Hopes

Jul 06, 2007
Ancestry, Neanderthals and Mitochondrial DNA

Jun 20, 2007
Generating New Hair

Jun 08, 2007
Embryonic stem cells from skin cells

Jun 01, 2007
Bigger muscles, faster whippet

May 26, 2007
Saved from the light

May 18, 2007
Big Dog, Little Dog

May 11, 2007
Strong DNA link found to heart attacks

May 04, 2007
Tiny RNAs make a big difference

Apr 28, 2007
Autism and genetics

Apr 20, 2007
Dinosaur Bones

Apr 13, 2007
Milk and the Modern Man

Apr 06, 2007
Of Mice and Twins

Mar 23, 2007
Add a gene, take away a parasite?

Mar 09, 2007
Surviving Lung Cancer

Feb 28, 2007
Breast Cancer Update

Jan 31, 2007
The virgin birth of a dragon

Jan 16, 2007
Don’t it make your brown eyes blue?

Dec 08, 2006
People are not as alike as scientists once thought

Nov 16, 2006
Whatever happened to those Neanderthals?

Nov 01, 2006
Rustling up some DNA

Oct 19, 2006
Roger Kornberg wins the Nobel Prize in chemistry for helping to figure out how cells read genes

Oct 06, 2006
Andy Fire and Craig Mello win the Nobel Prize for their work on RNA interference

Sep 15, 2006
One possible reason why schizophrenia is so common

Aug 17, 2006
Catching Cancer

Aug 03, 2006
Spooled DNA and Hidden Genes

Jun 30, 2006
Scat DNA

Jun 14, 2006
When a Gene Is Not Enough

Apr 27, 2006
Do these genes make me look fat?

Mar 15, 2006
One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish

Jan 20, 2006
Breakthrough of the year: Evolution

Dec 23, 2005
Figuring out what makes cancer tick

Nov 08, 2005
Good news on the cancer front

Oct 28, 2005
More ethical stem cells?

Aug 09, 2005
The Genetics of Mating

Jun 03, 2005
Stem cells in the news

Mar 29, 2005
DNA Fingerprinting is everywhere!

Mar 18, 2005
Signs of Aging

Feb 08, 2005
The Human Genome is More and Less Than We Expected to Find

Feb 01, 2005
The Evolving Genetics of HIV

Nov 02, 2004
Pets and Genetics

Sep 02, 2004
Genghis Khan, Thomas Jefferson and Adam

Jul 27, 2004
Why do we age and is there anything we can do about it?

Jul 07, 2004
Genetics, fidelity, and marriage

Jun 03, 2004
What makes us human?

May 05, 2004
Personalized medicine becoming a reality

Mar 17, 2004
Cures and Clones: Stem Cells in the News

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