Browsing: Genetics
Chemotherapy has been used for decades to treat patients with cancer. One common type of chemotherapy – called fluorouracil (5-FU)…
Whether in search of relatives, a family’s country of origin, or to understand personal disease risk, 15 million people have…
Telomeres, the protective caps at the ends of our chromosomes, act much like the plastic tips of shoelaces, preventing our…
Wide-eyed piglets rushing to check out the visitors to their unusual barn just might represent the future of organ transplantation – and…
A New York Times story this week about tennis legend Chris Evert’s battle—twice—with ovarian cancer painted a simple and powerful…
Why are antisocial people antisocial? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn…
It is unfathomable, and painful to acknowledge, but real; so many of the world’s deaths are potentially avoidable. Malaria, a…
The British army is under fire for having almost rejected a teenager on the grounds she has relatives with breast…
Dr. Francis Collins revealed that he has prostate cancer, and that it recently transformed into a larger, more aggressive cancer.…
This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. In 1999, I defined regenerative medicine…