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    After 10 Years of Testing All College Athletes for Sickle Cell Trait, What Have We Learned?

    All athletes playing on college sports teams governed by the National College Athletic Association (NCAA) are required to confirm their Sickle Cell Trait (SCT) status by taking a blood test or by…
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    The Many Faces of Sickle Cell Disease

    Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is caused by a common genetic variation that affects a person’s red blood cells. This SNAPSHOT explores why the variant that can cause red blood cells to sickle is more…
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    Genome Editing & Organ Transplants

    There is an extreme shortage of organs for people who need donations and scientists are challenged with finding a solution. Using pigs, genome editing may help us create more organs suitable for…
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    Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy - the Science, Benefits, and Implications of a New Reproductive Genetic Therapy

    Mitochondrial replacement therapy (MRT) is a new technique that enables prospective parents to avoid passing down certain serious medical conditions, called mitochondrial diseases, to their children…
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    Could a Deadly Disease be Prevented by Editing the Genome of the Cassava Plant?

    In the past decade, scientists have developed new tools for editing the DNA of living organisms, and these tools can be applied to all living organisms including the food supply. In this case study…
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    Saving the Hawaiian Honeycreeper Birds

    Can genetic technology be used to rescue the Hawaiian honeycreeper birds? There are a new generation of genetic tools offering ways to change the world around us to improve human health, crops, and…
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    Direct-To-Consumer Testing in the Genomic Age

    Technological developments are making it possible to read a person’s entire genetic code, or genome, more rapidly and at a lower cost than ever before. Personal genome sequencing is allowing…
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    ACTN3: Can Genetics Tell Me if I am Going to be an Olympic Sprinter?

    Genetic testing kits are sold for many purposes. Most focus on health and/or ancestry traits, but some of these tests report on genetic markers that have been linked to athletic performance and risk…
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    Privacy Protections for Genetic Information: Meet GINA

    GINA (the Genetic Information Non-discrimination Act) is a U.S. law to  protect people’s genetic information at work and in the health insurance market (with some exceptions). Students consider…
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    When New Treatments Come with Big Hopes and a Big Price Tag

    Spinal Muscular Atrophy is a rare genetic disorder, characterized by a loss of motor function. Researchers have developed treatments for people with this rare genetic disorder, and this lesson…