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August 08, 2005
Genetics in the News
DNAPrint
A company which develops and markets genetic testing products and
services has a couple interesting items in its corporate site, notably
the Product
Pipeline (which includes several ancestry tests and one to predict
eye color, billed as "the first genetics test yet developed for
predicting a complex human trait from DNA") and their answer
to the question "What
is Race?" on its FAQ. Meanwhile, John Hawks, a University
of Wisconsin-Madison anthropologist challenges
the value and the accuracy of DNAPrint's ancestry tests as perpetuating
the concept of race.
A step toward the $1,000 personal genome Researchers said they had found a faster and cheaper way to do it using readily available lab equipment that would cost only about $2.2 million, considerably cheaper than the current $20 million for a human genome. (The technique is described in Science.)
Calif.
to start testing newborns for genetic disorders
Newborns throughout the state will be screened for 75 inherited and
congenital disorders, the result of a new law that takes effect Monday.
Gene
silencing technique offers new strategy for treating, curing disease
A new technique aimed at directly controlling the expression of genes
by turning them on or off at the DNA level could lead to drugs for
the treatment or cure of many diseases
The
rise of a culture of life
The biological sciences are encouraging the move away from the ideals
of the Enlightenment towards an idea of individual perfectibility
and enhancement
rsp10 August 8, 2005 03:25 PM
http://blog.case.edu/orgs/cgreal/mt-tb.cgi/2117