Mom’s blood carries fetus genome

A complete copy of the fetal genome exists in the mother’s blood, suggesting many prenatal diagnoses could be performed noninvasively

Autism risk gene may rewire brain, U.S. study finds

Too many connections in the frontal lobe of the brain may help explain some of the learning problems experienced by people with autism, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday. They said autistic children with a common autism risk gene appear to have a lot of brain connections clustered in the frontal lobe, a part of the [...]

More hope for genetic fix for HIV

Genetically modifying the stem cells of HIV patients may one day prove to be an effective, one-time therapy against the hard-to-kill virus, according to the results of a proof-of-principle trial published this week in Science Translational Medicine. Human Immunodeficiency Virus Image: Wikimedia commons, NIAID In contrast to the widely used highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), [...]

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