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Still more concerns, legal or otherwise, could arise with the increasing availability of tests for so-called low-penetrance genes, such as those associated with breast or colon cancer. These don't necessarily mean that the carrier will be stricken but suggest an increased risk, especially in the presence of...
While the genetic dragnet cast over Lawrence has not yet yielded any arrests, it has led to controversy. Over the past decade, as anybody who followed the O.J. Simpson trial can attest, DNA profiling has become almost as important a part of crime fighting as fingerprinting. But even as technology...
The problem is, If you could locate such genes, what would you do with that knowledge? Should you incarcerate people for crimes they haven't yet committed but are genetically predisposed to commit? Is it possible to fix such miswired genes, and if so, should you try? The possibility of...
In fact, if gene therapy lives up to its promise, parents may someday be able to go beyond weeding out undesirable traits and start actually inserting the genes they want--perhaps even genes that have been crafted in a lab. Before the new millennium is many years old, parents may...
They still have a bit of time. Aside from gender, the only traits that can now be identified at the earliest stages of development are about a dozen of the most serious genetic diseases. Gene therapy in embryos is at least a few years away. And the gene or combination...