After enduring severe nausea and vomiting in pregnancy, the geneticist Marlena Fejzo made finding the cause of her condition, hyperemesis gravidarum, her life’s work.
Tag: Genetics and Heredity
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Guidelines Warn Against Racial Categories in Genetic Research
A new report from the National Academies of Science noted that race was a poor proxy for genetic diversity.
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At Long Last, a Donkey Family Tree
In a new study, genetics and archaeology combine to reveal the ancient origins of humanity’s first beast of burden.
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In Chernobyl’s Stray Dogs, Geneticists Find Nuclear Families
A new study is the first step in an effort to understand how exposure to chronic, low-level radiation has affected the area’s dogs.