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Whole-Genome Scans Not Quite Ready for Widespread Use: Study: MedlinePlus   A service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health Email this page to a friendBookmark & SharePrinter-friendly versionSubscribe to RSS...

The post Biznews.com appeared first on Biznews.com - The Rational Alternative. Prevention is better than cure, the old saying goes. It makes sense. It doesn’t make  sense to have perfectly healthy parts of the body cut off to achieve it....

(Fast Company) – It would raise the stakes even higher, but that didn’t stop Jay Flatley,Illumina’s then chief executive, from sending in vials of his own saliva and blood to the company’s newly opened lab. It was January 2009, and Illumina’s scientists...

Dr. Terry A. Rondberg Special to the Village News Gregor Johann Mendel published a book on genetics in 1866, launching the scientific community’s near obsession with mapping the human genome in order to predict how we’ll look, what diseases we’ll get...

Photo courtesy of OtnaYdur/Shutterstock Approximately 240,000 women in the United States are diagnosed with breast cancer each year and the average woman has approximately a 10 to 15 percent chance of developing breast cancer if she lives into her ...