Who’s My Other Mommy?...

Fraternal Rhesus Macaque twins, Mito and Tracker, have two different DNA mommies: their mother’s chromosomal DNA was injected into enucleated egg cells belonging to another Rhesus monkey female prior to fertilization.  The eggs were fertilized, in vitro, with donor sperm and implanted in yet another...

Pharmacowhat? Pharmacogenetics!...

Your genes affect not only how you look and your predisposition to disease, but it would appear that they also affect your responsiveness to different drug treatments following disease onset. In the emerging field of pharmacogenetics, scientists study genome variations and correlate them with drug treatment...

The Future of Medicine...

Emerging DNA technologies continue to offer us many new insights into our genome, and its implications on human disease. One area that is currently under much scrutiny is how different patients are responding differently to certain drug treatments. Researchers are now finding that some people have a...