Lifestyle factors like HRT ‘don’t compound genetic risks’ of breast cancer

Hormone replacement therapy and lifestyle choices do not boost the risk of breast cancer in women who have faulty genes linked with the disease, according to a a new study.

Experts had suggested there might be dangerous interactions between genes that increase the risk of breast cancer and other factors such as taking HRT. This would [...]

DNA Testing Makes Them Easy to Trace

When Donor 3066 signed up with the California Cryobank, he offered some basic information about himself on a piece of paper: that he had a BA in theater; that his mother was a nurse and his father was in the Baseball Hall of Fame; that his birthday was Sept. 18, 1968. He made it clear [...]