In the months leading up to Italy’s parliamentary elections, abortion has become a prominent issue on the election agenda. Former Conservative Premier Silvio Berlusconi, in the running for office, recently gave the United Nations a strong anti-choice message that a fetus should be protected “from conception until natural death.”
In December, popular conservative journalist Giuliano Ferrara […]
Feb
29
Italy: A Moratorium on Abortion or Women’s Rights?
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Feb
29
That’ll be 1000 dollars for your genotype please
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{IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Chromosome with DNA} After the human genome was sequenced several years ago, it was inevitable that someone, somewhere would see dollar signs in this. A California-based online company, 23andMe, is offering the general public genotyping services. You pay $999, receive a kit in the mail, which basically consists of a test tube […]
