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International collaboration doubles the number of genetic regions associated with breast, prostate, and ovarian cancers.
Italy’s outgoing health minister allows patients to receive an unproven stem cell cocktail at the government’s expense.
Researchers identify a protein involved in the chromosomal disorder that could explain its characteristic learning deficits.
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.
Next-generation sequencing diagnostics are already being used, and patients are ready.
A surgeon sues the Nobel Assembly for excluding him from last year’s prize awarded for regenerative science, but stem cell scientists are skeptical of his claims.
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