Abstract: The hypothesis is that ability is, in part, dictated by genetics. And the scientists want to understand the genetic a...
Abstract: Now, one in particular, the monarch, is in the middle of a genetic engineering dispute, and a lot of people are worri...
Abstract: We are all born with a genetic blueprint which determines what we are today. But each one of us inherits genetic mist...
Abstract: When is a foot not a foot? It sounds like a nonsense question or a Zen riddle, but there's an intriguing medical answ...
Abstract: Our first segment poses something of a problem. By the time you see it, it may already be obsolete such as the world ...
Abstract: It's among the rarest congenital heart defects and it's among the most deadly. Only around one of every hundred thous...
Abstract: Anyone raising children can tell you that they can be very different from grownups. They have their own feelings, the...
Abstract: The fact that deoxyribonucleic acid, DNA, carried genetic information was known, but few thought it was the central m...
Abstract: Waiting for a cure from genetic science? For the last two decades, gene therapy has been the holy grail of genetic re...
Abstract: American James Watson and Englishman Francis Crick connected many smaller discoveries, and built their famous model, ...
Abstract: Invisible to the naked eye, the largest just a few thousandths of a millimeter, bacteria multiply like wildfire. In t...
Abstract: Behold the noble thumb — with the help of this versatile digit, you can do an amazing number of things. You can ...
Abstract: Marfan's syndrome is a potentially fatal disease that is still with us today. In our first segment, we'll meet a cour...
Abstract: For people who lost their relatives, forensic genetics may give some comfort to them. Besides this, we'll also introd...
Abstract: A hereditary link to one of man's dreaded cancers — we may be able to prevent this disease with this knowledge. ...
Abstract: Our nervous system has two main parts. The first——the central nervous system——interprets information and coordinates ...
Abstract: Genetic diseases are linked to either dominant genes or recessive genes. In the case of a dominant condition, only on...
Abstract: In 1998 a young man named Robert Faye, Jr. made medical history. With the aide of a remarkable device called the func...
Abstract: Each of our sense organs, including the eye, ear and skin, responds to a particular kind of stimulus. For the eye, th...
Abstract: The biotech revolution is headed for a grocery store near you. If the Food and Drug Administration approves, products...