Genetics

Healthcare for Angelina Jolie -- and everyone else [Blowback]

2013-05-18 05:00:00

We applaud Times columnist Robin Abcarian for shining the light on the inequities in our healthcare system in response to Angelina Jolie’s recent announcement about her prophylactic mastectomy. When Jolie made her medical decision, she had at her...

Travis Stork of 'The Doctors'

2013-05-18 00:00:00

As more people get their health information from TV and the Internet, it becomes crucial to have experts on the small screen who can provide accurate information. That's where Travis Stork, co-host of the TV show "The Doctors," comes in. Stork, an...

Angelina Jolie and the fate of breast cancer genes

2013-05-14 16:17:00

Angelina Jolie’s Op-Ed in the New York Times about getting a double mastectomy after learning that she was at risk of getting breast cancer struck a chord with fellow celebs as well as with Los Angeles Times staffers Anna Gorman and Paul Whitefield,...

Christopher Shinn's plays explore what victims do next

2013-05-11 10:00:00

NEW YORK — David Mamet has his hustlers, Edward Albee his domestic warriors, Tony Kushner his brilliant self-flagellators. If playwright Christopher Shinn has a signature character, it is the manipulative victim — the half-sympathetic, half-...

'Cultural Politics of Seeds' at UCLA on May 17

2013-05-06 07:00:00

The UCLA Center for the Study of Women will be presenting a symposium on the "Cultural Politics of Seeds" on May 17, as part of the Life (Un)Ltd project which explores the impact of recent developments in biotechnology and biosciences on feminist studies....

Everyone on Earth is related to everyone else, DNA shows

2013-05-07 19:38:00

The history of Europe is written in its people's DNA. The Huns and the Slavs made incursions into Eastern Europe about 1,500 years ago. Migrants moved from Ireland to England in recent centuries. Populations in Italy and Spain have been comparatively...

Francis Crick letters in spotlight as DNA Day approaches

2013-04-24 14:12:00

As the world gears up to celebrate DNA Day on Thursday -- the anniversary of the publication of scholarly papers that explained the structure of the molecule -- the letters of Francis Crick, one of the scientists involved in the work, are in the news....

Mapping of zebra fish DNA expected to benefit humans

2013-04-18 06:00:00

Scientists have moved one step closer to understanding how genes drive human biology and disease — and they've done it by mapping the DNA of a tiny, decidedly non-human creature known as the zebra fish. In a study published Wednesday by the...

Can a company patent your DNA? Supreme Court hears BRCA gene case

2013-04-15 05:30:00

Can a private company own rights to your DNA? The nine justices of the Supreme Court will consider that question Monday as lawyers for Myriad Genetics make their best case that the company should be able to keep its patent on two genes known to...

Who should own DNA? All of us

2013-04-12 00:00:00

Most court cases involving patent law are corporate battles, with one company suing another for infringing on its intellectual property rights and, therefore, profits. Big companies fighting over big money can seem painfully irrelevant, especially when so...

Tumor DNA studies help explain cancer genetics

2013-03-28 13:21:00

As it has become more efficient and less expensive to analyze the DNA in normal cells, it has also gotten a whole lot easier to analyze the mutated DNA in tumors — a project scientists hope will help explain why cancer behaves as it does and what...

Scientists discover new DNA regions associated with three cancers

2013-03-27 12:35:00

A massive gene-hunting effort involving hundreds of scientists has identified 74 newly discovered regions of DNA that are associated with breast, ovarian and prostate cancers — diseases that strike about half a million Americans every year. The...

An Aberdeen team, Dakota Genetics, was recently crowned the Open B Division champion of the South Dakota Amateur Billiards Association in Pierre. Team members include, from left: Dan Davis, Jerald Traversie, Jonah McLaughlin, Justin Keckler and Fran Archambeau.

2013-03-24 20:31:00

Swartz studies how biologic fluids move through tissue and how that movement affects human health. This work helps explain how the immune system responds to tumors, and how tumors resist cellular attack.

2012-10-01 14:49:00

Melody Swartz, 43, a bioengineer who enhances understanding of the dynamic processes of tissue vascularization and immune responses to tumor invasion using a large toolbox of concepts and methods from biophysics, cell culture, molecular genetics, engineering and immunology.

2012-09-19 00:00:00