A partial transcript of the upcoming episode in which Maury reveals to John and Elizabeth Edwards whether or not John fathered Rielle Hunter's baby. The results are in!
By Choire Sicha May 12, 2009
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Can ejaculating every day improve a man's fertility?
By Catherine Price
October 16, 2007
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More and more people are trying to trace their ancestry with a quick DNA test. A new book -- and my own experiment -- show that science can reveal some interesting things about your past, but not necessarily what you want to know.
By Laura Miller
June 26, 2006
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Are we descendants of clay? Is rock slime related to Grandpa? A fantastic new book tours the competing theories of how life on Earth began 4 billion years ago.
By Andrew O'Hehir
October 31, 2005
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Glyn Moody's "Digital Code of Life" tells the story of the bioinformatic revolution: The merging of computers and molecular biology.
By Andrew Leonard
March 15, 2004
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Now what?
By Lynn Harris
April 11, 2006
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Online betting site invites wagers on team's test results.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
April 6, 2006
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The ancestry of 40 percent of Ashkenazi Jews is traced to four women.
By Lynn Harris
January 18, 2006
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Yes, genetics research can alleviate suffering. But in our consumerist, narcissistic society, it's ultimately about producing perfect people. Part 2 of "How I Decoded the Human Genome."
By John Sundman
October 22, 2003
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We are becoming the masters of our own DNA. But does that give us the right to decide that my children should never have been born?
By John Sundman
October 21, 2003
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Going once, going twice, gone! Estonia's gene pool has been sold to the bidder in the front row.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
March 10, 2003
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Is there a biological guarantee that your child will love you? Not yet.
By Theresa Pinto Sherer
April 3, 2001
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Researchers say it's possible, but lawmakers must pave the way.
By Theresa Pinto Sherer
January 31, 2001
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But if George W. Bush's office had not ignored a murder confession and DNA evidence, Christopher Ochoa might have been freed much sooner.
By Salon Staff
January 17, 2001
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June 30, 2000
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Hosanna! The Human Genome Project has been completed. We will now cure diseases, weed out defective genes and create a new supergeneration in the near future. Not.
By Tabitha M. Powledge
June 27, 2000
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The sci-fi possibilities of genetic tampering may soon become real. And there's no law against them.
By Ralph Brave
June 27, 2000
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A tiny private company and the giant public genome project jointly crossed the finish line. But the upstart really won.
By Ralph Brave
June 26, 2000
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Downtown jazz pianist Matthew Shipp takes the A train.
By Seth Mnookin
May 16, 2000
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A geneticist sparks outrage with a project to help African-Americans trace their family roots.
By Arthur Allen
May 12, 2000
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The genome project is getting the buzz. But the real breakthroughs may come from labs out of the limelight, like Gene Logic.
By Arthur Allen
May 1, 2000
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An interview with Sherwin B. Nuland, author of "The Mysteries Within: A
Surgeon Reflects on Medical Myths."
By David Bowman
April 3, 2000
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You might want to live forever, but should Hitler?
By Susan McCarthy
March 30, 2000
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Kary Mullis revolutionized genetic research but thumbs his nose at the scientific establishment. It thumbs its nose right back.
By William Speed Weed
March 29, 2000
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Race was never an issue in my life -- until I fell in love.
By Eleanor Stacy Parker
February 17, 2000