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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
If you could find out your medical future, would you? Researchers around the world and right here in the Delaware Valley are unzipping the human genome to expose how our genes influence our health. The impact on privacy, health care and medical ethics is only now being fully explored.
“Unzipped” features a panel discussion with experts [...]
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
As the rates of HIV infection rise around the world, a small percentage of people will never have to worry about contracting the disease. They are naturally resistant to the virus. Scientists in Philadelphia are working on a treatment that would recreate this resistance through genetic modification. From WHYYs health and science desk Kerry Grens reports.
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