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How Dickensian Childhoods Leave Genetic Scars

How Dickensian Childhoods Leave Genetic Scars

Being maltreated as a child can perhaps affect you for life. It now seems the harm might reach into your very DNA. Two recently ...

Recommended Reading: You!

Recommended Reading: You!

A team of four students graduating this week tackled the idea as part of a capstone senior project in the Institute for Genome Sciences ...

Spreading The Word or Preaching to The Choir?

Spreading The Word or Preaching to The Choir?

I live near Rougemont, North Carolina, a hamlet where the road widens a bit as you travel from Durham north toward the Virginia state ...

Burgers and Flies

Burgers and Flies

Mohamed Noor wasn’t a stellar student at the College of William and Mary in Virginia—until he enrolled in his first genetics class. ...

DNA Sequencing of Sick Children Reinforces Wisconsin Work

DNA Sequencing of Sick Children Reinforces Wisconsin Work

Researchers at Duke University have given a powerful new demonstration of the gene sequencing technique used successfully in Wisconsin ...

IGSP Op-Eds(view archives)

SUSANNE B. HAGA

Science is Curiosity and Wonder

HUNTINGTON F. WILLARD

Genes and a Sporting Chance

SUSANNE B. HAGA

The Human Genome At Ten

Addressing the DNA Backlog

IGSP Authors

The first in-depth look at personal genomics: its larger-than-life research subjects; its entrepreneurs and do-it-yourselfers; its technology developers; the bewildered and overwhelmed physicians and regulators who must negotiate it; and what it means to be a "public genome" in a world where privacy is already under siege.

GenomeLIFE

Genomes@Duke

Maynard Olson from the University of Washington will be spending this spring semester at Duke and the IGSP as a Visiting Professor. He will be working informally on a number of research projects and will be joining in on some teaching as well.

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