genetics

“The Soviet Union did everything they could to invest back in science and genetics and molecular biology, but it was still stagnant,” says Angela Rasmussen, a leading American virologist now working in Canada.

"I think part of it is my genetics and growing into a bit more of a man's body. I think that took me a long time."

"We want to understand our ancestry and the migration routes of our ancestors," says professor G Kumaresan, who heads the genetics department at the university.

But she offered Hertz-Picciotto her experience in genetics and epidemiology as well as the considerable resources of her agency.

On Aug. 12, under a federal judge’s court order, the NSF reinstated the grant, which studies how genetics data in mass medical records can be used to identify potential risk factors for disease.