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International collaboration doubles the number of genetic regions associated with breast, prostate, and ovarian cancers.
Researchers identify a protein involved in the chromosomal disorder that could explain its characteristic learning deficits.
European scientists have taken down the HeLa genome after publishing it without the consent of Henrietta Lacks’s family.
Genetics experts argue that patients should be told about dangerous variants in their DNA that show up incidentally during sequencing.
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The passenger pigeon was hunted to extinction 99 years ago, but researchers are planning to use DNA from museum specimens to bring the bird back to life.
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