Florie Charles has created another wonderful video at Youreka Science, this time helping us understand: What is going on with the parts of our DNA sometimes referred to as “dark […]
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Henrietta Lacks, The Lacks family and the NIH-Current Genetics Update
The NIH has recently announced an agreement with the Lacks family regarding the future use of the HeLa cell line. We know many biology, history and ethics classes use […]
Current Genetics Update: Mitochondrial DNA transfer (“three-parent” IVF) regulat
pgEd was delighted to have Hadley Stevens Smith as an intern this summer. Hadley’s guest post about mitochondrial DNA transfer for Current Genetics Update is below. Thank you Hadley for […]
Current Genetics Update: The Supreme Court, DNA collection and gene patents
In the past several weeks, the US Supreme Court has issued two major decisions that impact the field of personal genetics. First, the Court rules that human genes cannot be […]