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'It doesn't lie. So who are you?': What happens when DNA tests show a woman is not the mother of the child she gave birth to?"At first, I kind of laughed … But they were serious. I could just see the seriousness in their faces." In this book excerpt, Lise Barnéoud explores the limitations of DNA testing.
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'Some of them have accuracy that's close to zero': Experts unpack the promise and pitfalls of genetic tests aimed at consumersINTERVIEW Live Science spoke with a bioethicist and sociologist about emerging genomic technologies, including those that enable parents to "score" and "select" IVF embryos.
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Emerging embryo-selection technologies are currently 'little more than snake oil.' But someday, they could widen social inequities.Book In the book "What We Inherit," experts unpack long-standing myths about genes and how those myths could shape public opinion around emerging embryo-selection technologies.
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New tech allows parents to 'score' IVF embryos for desirable traits — and it's in desperate need of regulationOpinion Companies now offer polygenic embryo selection to prospective parents undergoing IVF. But the technology is dangerously underregulated.
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Many men lose their Y chromosomes as they age. It may shorten their lives.A researcher explores why men lose their Y chromosomes in cells as they age and the health implications associated with this loss.
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Science history: 'Father of modern genetics' describes his experiments with pea plants — and proves that heredity is transmitted in discrete units — Feb. 8, 1865Gregor Mendel described his experiments with pea plants and proved that genes are transmitted in discrete units, with certain fundamental laws of inheritance.
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These genes were thought to lead to blindness 100% of the time. They don't.New research finds that retinal diseases thought to map one-to-one to genetic mutations are more complicated than that.
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DNA from ancient viral infections helps embryos develop, mouse study revealsA stretch of viral DNA in the mouse genome gives cells in early-stage embryos the potential to become almost any cell type in the body.
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Leonardo da Vinci's DNA may be embedded in his art — and scientists think they've managed to extract someIn a first, scientists have extracted DNA from a Renaissance-era drawing attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, but they can't be sure that the genetic material belongs to the Italian polymath.
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