When Barbra Streisand revealed to Variety magazine that she’d had her dog cloned for $50,000, many people learned for the first time that copying pets and other animals is a real business. more

Ancestry, 23andMe and other popular companies that offer genetic testing pledged on the  31st, July to be upfront when they share users’ DNA data with researchers, hand it over to police or transfer it to other companies, a move aimed … Tęsti skaitymą →

If you knew someone was genetically predisposed to cancer, would you tell them? Dr. Kari Stefansson would. The Icelandic neurologist is the CEO of deCODE Genetics, a company that has collected the DNA of nearly half the country’s population. Using … Tęsti skaitymą →

Workers in China are being hooked up with brain-reading devices that feed information about their moods to their employers, raising concerns about the privacy of people’s most basic emotions. more

Genetic disease risk screening is becoming a popular employee benefit. But the tests may not be all that beneficial for the general population, experts say. more

Krista and Tatiana are conjoined at the skull, making them craniopagus twins. They may be scientific miracles, but they are also just eleven-year-old sisters: they play together, annoy each other, support each other, etc. At the borders of these daily … Tęsti skaitymą →

An Ohio court will decide the fate of a transgender teen who is in what the judge describes as a „gut-wrenching situation.“ The teen’s parents want court authority to stop their child from getting the treatment and therapy that was … Tęsti skaitymą →

California coffee shops may soon be forced to warn customers about a possible cancer risk linked to their morning jolt of java. more

The recommendations state that laboratories performing a sequencing analysis of the protein-coding regions of DNA (the exome) or of the entire genetic code (the genome) for any medical indication should also examine 57 genes for well-recognized mutations that might signal … Tęsti skaitymą →

There needs to be international agreement on when and how death is diagnosed, two leading doctors suggest. At a European meeting of anaesthetists they said improvements in technology mean the line between life and death is less clear. They called for precise … Tęsti skaitymą →