Sergio Pistoi, Science Writer and Consultant

Epigenetics explains why the “junk” DNA in our genome is not so junk after all.

Unpublished

Publisher: River Cove Press, 2003

ISBN: 0971935505

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]

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Scientific 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…

FULL TEXT (Pdf)

Link to Scientific American

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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Scientific American.com, May 12, 2001 [FULL TEXT]

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The Lancet, June 27, 1998

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