Karen Iris Tucker
By Karen Iris Tucker
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Culture Can Testing Ever Be a Mistake?
Even when given the option of free or low-cost genetic testing, there are some who have consciously decided against it out of fear that the results could lead to discrimination from insurance companies or employers. Are such fears warranted? According to Noah Kauff, a geneticist at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, they are not. Of…
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Culture Soldier GirI
In the comic-book frame, we can see the heroine: a squat, somewhat disheveled contrast to the smooth, self-possessed Israeli soldiers by whom she is surrounded. Her eyes, etched with a couple of ink dashes, nevertheless betray both vulnerability and alienation. Peering out of a pouchy Ashkenazic face, they seek out friendship, sex and acceptance from…
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Culture Breast Cancer Test Patent Causing a Furor
An American firm’s new European patent on a screening test for a genetic mutation that causes breast cancer has created an uproar among geneticists in Israel and Europe, who say the patent raises ethical questions because it targets Ashkenazic Jews. The firm, Myriad Genetics, of Salt Lake City, Utah, was granted the European patent for…
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News All Jews, All the Time: A New Radio Station Seeks Young Listeners Around the World
B’nai B’rith International, a 161-year-old nonprofit organization and charity, is hardly known as a hip haven through which the new generation can connect to Jewish culture. That could change, however, if the organization makes the desired impact with its new 24/7, Internet-based Jewish-music radio station, www.bnai- brithradio.org. Launched this fall, and boasting a play list…
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