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The latest YouTube video to go viral on the Internet features a pair of kittens named Charlie and Spike. They aren't your average furry felines: they are afflicted with myotonia congenita, otherwise known as "fainting goat" syndrome.
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Hundreds of children in the UK are being born with genetic disorders every year because their parents are first cousins.
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For some, the fear of being at risk for Huntington's Disease is so great that it is never mentioned. It is kept secret even from your own children who may also be at risk for the disease. Such is the case with Kevin Glenney's father until recently.
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A new study by UCI neurologist Dr. Steven Cramer says bad drivers may be able to blame their poor driving habits on their genes.
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A procedure that someday may allow women to avoid passing certain genetic diseases on to their children has arrived at success, with the birth of four healthy monkeys, scientists reported Wednesday.
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Genetically modified monkeys that glow in ultraviolet light and pass the trait on to their young have been created by scientists in Japan.
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Eighty groups have called on the federal government to stop the introduction and field testing of genetically modified alfalfa by Monsanto.
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Adapt and survive, don't and die is part and parcel of evolution, two scientists have conducted a study that shows that adaptation in a species may be happening faster than previously believed.
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If the child in question has a genetic connection to a father but not the surrogate mother, can the surrogate mother be held liable for that child's support? Find out what happened in this Maryland "groundbreaking" case.
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In the most extensive findings to date on the genetics of autism, scientists have pinpointed two new genetic links that may predispose children to develop the complex brain disorder.
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Putting genetic testing at the heart of the NHS could herald a "revolution" in diagnosing, treating and preventing disease, according to the government's genetics adviser.
Can money buy happiness? Is happiness genetic? A new study suggests satisfaction is partly genetic, but you can control how you react to events.
 An Egyptian professor says the discovery of prostate cancer in a 2,200-year-old mummy indicates the disease was caused by genetics, not environment.
Considered one of the creators of medical genetics in North America, Dr. F. Clarke Fraser has been inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.
Mummified body found in Alps was predisposed to coronary heart disease.
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Folksinger/writer Woody Guthrie died after years of battling Huntington's disease. Two of his eight children also died from Huntington's. His famous son, Arlo Guthrie, did not inherit the fatal genetic disorder.
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Genetic Blogs
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A new US research project has discovered a means of converting scar tissue that forms after a heart attack into...
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Empathy is on a precipitous decline in the family and home environments. Technology is partly to blame, but so are...
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At the end of April 2012 President Obama announced its “Bioeconomy Blueprint,” a strategy to spur the development...
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Researchers based at the University at Buffalo, led by Thomas Russo, have put forward evidence that a more potent...
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Research published in the journal Microbial Cell Factories suggests that crab shells may provide the raw material for a...
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