2011 is a year to remember. The news of Osama bin Laden’s death, the shocking Casey Anthony verdict and even Justin Bieber finds a spot in the top DNA stories of 2011. Besides DNA used in the court room and as an important identification tool in confirming deaths, genetics also made many landmark achievements this [...]
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One in every ten new mothers in the US is a teenage mother. Did you know that the US has the highest rate of teenage pregnancy in the entire developing world? With 745,000 girls under the age of 20 getting pregnant each year, what is happening in the US that is perpetuating this problem? The [...]
Recently reviewed study shows that what parents-to-be normally wait 20 weeks for, can now be achieved in seven. This form of prenatal determination uses cell-free fetal DNA from the mother’s blood to determine the gender of the fetus. These newly reviewed tests have been available for sale in many countries but have only recently been [...]