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Gene-testing dispute focuses on how much a patient should know

...doctors and ethicists amid growing use of gene sequencing for clinical use and the plethora...should routinely seek and report back on 57 gene abnormalities that signal treatable or...possible, to avoid deciphering the content of genes that may contain information patients might...

http://juneauempire.com/not-web/2013-05-17/gene-testing-dispute-focuses-how-much
Not For Web
Swimming for a cause, swimming for family

...thereafter.Jones was tested and is not a carrier of the disease. Her younger brother Trevor, 15, does not have any symptoms. The gene can be inherited if both parents have a dormant form. Roughly one in 50,000 people in the United States have Friedreich's...

http://juneauempire.com/sports/2013-05-17/swimming-cause-swimming-family
Sports
'Star Trek: Into Darkness' perfect thrill ride

...second voyage on the Starship Enterprise, Abrams has perfected that approach. "Star Trek Into Darkness" is the best work since Gene Roddenberry brought the franchise to life in the 1960s.Abrams shows a deep and passionate loyalty for all of the incarnations...

http://juneauempire.com/art/2013-05-16/star-trek-darkness-perfect-thrill-ride
Art
LGBTQ in the capital, part II: Some members of the community - who they are

...sexual anatomy that doesn't seem to fit the traditional definitions of male and female types."Some people can have just the genes, and even though they're born male or female, they'll feel like they're in the wrong body and that they should be the...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2013-04-29/lgbtq
Local
In the Stacks: new audiobooks

...habitable planet onto which it can disgorge its passengers to replenish the human race. The children have been created from gene banks by the ship ? it is the only parental figure they've ever known. So tensions rise when the ship begins conducting...

http://juneauempire.com/art/2013-05-09/stacks-new-audiobooks
Art
The private market targets our genes

...MacLean. We share 30 percent of our genes with lettuce. But some genes may hold secrets that cure cancer...race will become the ``eBay for genes.'' They can offer them for...gold rush for patents on every gene, whether it has a known use or...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/030700/Ope_comment.html
Opinion
Genes cleaned, starched while you wait

...living organism except Jesse Helms contains genes, which are tiny things that scientists...tiny architect's offices. Inside these genes are molecules made out of a substance called...out with tiny scientific tweezers, the genes that cause certain humans to have certain...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/072300/Ope_barry.html
Opinion
Remembering Roger Ebert

...of the rabbit ears with a Coke, some saltine crackers, and a few slices of cheddar. "Sneak Previews" was on, hosted by Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert.I'd root for Ebert as the two bickered. Siskel was the movie snob, but Ebert loved movies the way...

http://juneauempire.com/art/2013-04-18/remembering-roger-ebert
Art
Cyclist rides entire trail of Iditarod

...said Koitzsch, who hopes his two children, 7-year-old daughter, Lily, and 5-year-old son, Asher, share that gene.As he walked out the door of Pike's Waterfront Lodge, pushing his bike the day after finishing his ride to pose for a photo...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-04-21/cyclist-rides-entire-trail-iditarod
State
Thomas Eric Osborne

...Sandy) Renhard; Charlotte Beebe; and Carol Snell; his nieces Gloria (George) Katzenberger; Carol (Brice) Pearson; Sue (Gene) Fraser; and nephews, Arthur (Linnea) Osborne; Joe Crosson Jr.; Don (Carol) Crosson; Bob (MaryAlice) Crosson. He...

http://www.legacy.com/Link.asp?I=LS000164451792

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