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...what's the harm? ask TT devotees, who seem bewildered by the flap. Kathy Butler, a Melbourne geneticist concerned about TT inroads into Australia, has one answer. "Health funding is in crisis," she says. "Surely valuable nursing hours are better used with scientifically proven, genuinely useful nursing methods...
...Francis Collins may not have been ready for Saturday Night Live, much less prime time, but the University of Michigan students screamed with laughter all the same. As the last class of the semester was ending, the 43- year-old geneticist slipped an acoustic guitar from its battered case and in a reedy tenor began warbling lyrics of his own invention to the tune of one of Frank Sinatra's enduring hits. "So start today," Collins crooned into a microphone. "Love DNA, and do it ouuuuurrr way." The star of this spoof stood 6 ft. 4 in. tall. He wore...
...fear of getting breast cancer because most of the women in my family got it," she said. "But I was too busy trying to survive ovarian cancer to think about breast cancer." Too busy until she read about the work of Mary-Claire King, the University of California, Berkeley, geneticist who is searching for the gene that causes the inherited form of breast cancer and also increases the risk of ovarian cancer...
Even if there were a gene for, say, criminal activity, what would society do about it? Gregory Carey, a behavior geneticist at the University of Colorado, points out that "we already have a true genetic marker, detectable before birth, that predicts violence." The individuals with this genotype, he says, are nine times as likely to get arrested and convicted for a violent act as people without the genes. He asks, "Do you know the high-risk marker I'm talking about? That's right: being male...
...announcement that an international team of scientists, led by Dr. Daniel Cohen at the Center for the Study of Human Polymorphism in Paris, has produced the first full-fledged -- if still rough -- map of the human genome. "This is a major step forward," says David Ward, a Yale geneticist who has been analyzing the map for errors. "It's a first pass, and it will have its warts. But it's still significant...