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When ancestry tests reveal more than genetics

Special correspondent Lee Hawkins shares his experience finding new family with online genetics tests — and reconciling fraught history.
"The truth is, we can't really change the past, but we can affect the present and the future," says Lee Hawkins, who learned from a genetics test that nearly a fifth of his DNA is from Wales.
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Can science fiction help us grapple with gene editing?

Nov 29, 2018
You had to know we were going to talk about "Gattaca."
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Who owns the results of genetic testing?

Oct 16, 2018
Personal data from genetic tests has been used in drug development and research.
A visitor views a digital representation of the human genome in 2001 at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
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Who owns the results of genetic testing?

Oct 16, 2018
Personal data from genetic tests has been used in drug development and research.
A visitor views a digital representation of the human genome in 2001 at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
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Crispr inventor worries about the unintended consequences of gene editing

Jun 16, 2017
Jennifer Doudna says the real value in the technology is that it 'opens up opportunities for applications.'
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Our most immutable material

Mar 16, 2016
23andMe’s Kate Black on protecting genetic data.
23andMe provides genetics testing to customers. 
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23andMe is jumping back into the market

Oct 21, 2015
The company will offer tests to determine if people are carriers relatively rare diseases.

For public good, not for profit.

Promoting health at the molecular level

Aug 12, 2015
When wellness starts with a genome sequence.

23andMe believes genetics are the future of health

Jul 6, 2015
CEO Anne Wojcicki wants to improve drug therapies by using DNA data.

Genetics may be the next big thing in medicine, but at what cost?

Apr 12, 2013
Many believe genetics are the next big thing in medicine, but one question for this new era of personalized medicine is cost.