1. DNA Analysis and Diagnosis
(Category/DNA Testing)

Since the 1950s, scientists have discovered a broad variety of new techniques for medical analysis and testing. Where scientists once searched for disease-related antibodies in a patient, they can now ...

2. Genetic Technology
(Category/Genetics)

While CML is not an inherited disease, scientists hope to one day use the same concept to treat or cure genetic diseases. One step in that process was the Human Genome Project, which could give scientists ...

3. Genetic Testing
(Category/Genetics)

Geneticists have not only identified genes that cause genetic disease, but they have also developed genetic tests to detect these diseases as well as researched possible cures for them.  ...

4. Inherited Conditions
(Category/Genetics)

...  Autosomal Recessive Disorders Cystic fibrosis, for example, is a disease caused by the deletion of DNA base pairs. Thirty thousand children and adults in the United States ...

5. Chromosome Theory of Heredity
(Category/Genetics)

... genetic diseases such as hemophilia, leukemia, and breast cancer. Discovering The Structure Of DNA Scientists in the 1830s and early 1840s knew that chromosomes were passed from one generation ...

6. Gregor Mendel: The Father of Modern Genetics
(Category/Genetics)

... his scientific pursuits. He died of a chronic kidney disease in 1884. Thirty-four years after the publication of Mendel’s results and 16 years after his death, his research was rediscovered independently ...

7. DNA Encyclopedia
(Uncategorised Content)

... the cellular basis of living things, the germ theory of disease, and the process of evolution are three - and the chemical basis of heredity is another of those principles. Unlocking the secret of DNA ...

8. Genetics
(Category)

... This practice is called selective breeding. Farmers, for example, might selectively breed plants that are more resistant to disease or that yield a larger crop. Dairy farmers might selectively ...

9. DNA Testing
(Category)

DNA-based tests have also found great value in detecting the potential for genetic disease. Frequently a genetic disease cannot be diagnosed until its symptoms appear. With DNA tests, however, it is possible ...