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Month: April 2018

Employees signing up for genetic testing in droves
Apr 20, 2018

Employees signing up for genetic testing in droves

The New York Times has a thought-provoking piece out headlined, Employees Jump at Genetic Testing. Is That a Good Thing? It's a good question. The article begins: Levi Strauss & Company introduced a novel benefit for employees at its San Francisco headquarters last fall: free genetic screening to assess their hereditary risks for certain cancers…

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by JD Lasicain Genetics0
Bringing back the woolly mammoth with ancient DNA
Apr 18, 2018

Bringing back the woolly mammoth with ancient DNA

We couldn't help but notice the headline in the British tabloid the Daily Mail the other day: "Woolly mammoths could come back to life and SAVE the Arctic: Harvard cloning scientist is using DNA from a 42,000-year old carcass to see the Ice Age species rise from the dead." Especially because there's a scene in…

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by JD Lasicain Genetics0
Countering the threat of bioweapons
Apr 16, 2018

Countering the threat of bioweapons

The May-June 2018 issue of Foreign Policy magazine includes an in-depth report titled, “The New Killer Pathogens" about the coming bioweapons threat.

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by JD Lasicain Blog, Genetics0
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