The invisible genome
By admin • Jun 13th, 2007 • Category: Selected articlesEpigenetics explains why the “junk” DNA in our genome is not so junk after all.
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Father of the Impossibile Children: a Profile of Would-be-Cloner Severino Antinori
By admin • Apr 1st, 2002 • Category: Selected articles
A few hundred yards away from the Vatican, a fertility clinic has become both the top destination for desperate couples and the pope’s most troublesome neighbor. Ignoring nearly universal opprobrium, Severino Antinori presses ahead with plans to clone a human being
Scientific American, April 01, 2002 [READ IT]
Technorati Tags: Severino Antinori, Cloning, Reproduction, science journalism, Scientific American
Facing you genetic destiny, part I and II
By admin • Feb 17th, 2002 • Category: Selected articlesScientific American, February, 2002
A two-parts story about the use of predictive genetic tests, featuring my aunt Wilma.
Included in the anthology book: “Genome, a collection of the best essays and articles on unlocking the secrets of the human genome”, River Cove Press.
Part I : Marina, a young woman living near Varese, Italy, stood chatting with her neighbors one day two years ago when she suddenly dropped to the floor, clutching her chest…
Breast Cancer: Knocking Out a Killer
By admin • Jun 11th, 2001 • Category: Selected articles
Test-tube studies have uncovered key facts about the breast cancer gene BRCA1, but new animal models of the disease promise to reveal much more
Scientific American, June 11, 2001 [READ IT]
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Chic’ Switch Turns Stem Cells into Neurons
By admin • May 12th, 2001 • Category: Selected articlesScientific American.com, May 12, 2001 [FULL TEXT]
Technorati Tags: Cloning, Genetics, stem cells, science journalism, Scientific American