genetic testing
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Mississippi Judges Block New DNA Tests In Reference To Death Row Case
Mississippi Supreme Court rules that further lab evidence will not be considered in the case of Willie Jerome Manning
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The Ancestry Trap: This Geneticist Wants to Shift the Focus From DNA Testing to Black Futures
Dr. Janina Jeff can tell you just about anything you want to know about genetics testing: How does it work? What can it tell you? How do you spell mitochondria again? But Jeff herself has never taken a DNA test. “It still sits on my shelf,” she told The Root in a recent interview. A…
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House GOP Backing a Bill That Would Allow Your Employer to Require Genetic Testing
While everyone is in an uproar about the repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, another bill is moving through Congress unnoticed, and if passed, it would allow companies to require employees to undergo genetic testing and have access to employee health information. Currently, giving employers that kind of power…