it gives doctors the right to discard embryos if they show signs of genetic it affects. -- genetic defects. lawmakers agreed to allow limited use of the procedure. >> this person listened keenly to t debe. a gynecologist in berlin, he turned himself in in 2005 after he carried out the procedure which was then banned. a court found in his favor, spurring a big public debate. >> it may prevent suffering in individual cases, but in every single case, it denies a conceived human life the right to live. we should not do that. >> no one takes the decision to have the in vitro fertilizaon lightly. it is anxtrely stressful procedure. both physically and psychologically, and it carries a social stigma. >> couples to go this route already have a long history of suffering behind them. ultimately, arguments like that won, but the use of the procedure will be strongly restrict it. the only parents with hereditary illnesses will qualify. a few hundred couples are likely to benefit each year. >> i am relieved that a sensibl world will affect the majority and couples are not prevented from seeking treatme

thanks to advances of genetics and nanotechnology people alive today may live 1,000 years or more. well, if that does come true, how will social security handle those benefits? forget about the front end. when the benefits kick in. what about the back end when they stop? we'll ask these experts renowned inventor, author and technology trend forecaster, ray kurzweil and professor and author s. jay olshanski, and from offsite in colorado terry grossman m.d. author and longevity clinic director. captions produced by visual audio captioning www.visualaudiocaptioning.com if. for such a small word it packs a wallop. if i live to a hundred. if social security isn't enough. if my heart gets broken. if she says yes. we believe if should never hold you back. if should be managed with a plan that builds on what you already have. together we can create a personal safety net, a launching pad, for all those brilliant ifs in the middle of life. you can call on our expertise and get guarantees for the if in life. after all, we're metlife. >>> welcome, terry grossman. on the live line and we'll be

i think it is a genetic thing. we have genes. we can't deny the genetic disposition. long-lived people have children who live longs. >> are there drinkers and non-drinkers who would be 100? >> yes. >> in that case, you would conclude that the reason why they live is genetics. >> genetics plays a big rolole, that's correct. >> but you're telling me that you're going beyond genes now, or in a different direction from genes. you're saying that their longevity is also controlled by the actively of the brain. >> yes. >> not by concentration. >> yes. >> by what? >> by the things that they're interested in. you have changed -- the genes can be altered, just like we give drugs for depression, the drugs go in there and eventually alter the genetic programming through the messages that are sent out through the genes. >> what drugs do you give out for depression? >> various ones. one is levaxer and other drugs? >> prozac? >> prozac, paxil, zoloft, the whole raft of them, and there are rother antidepressants. >> you sound like you know your drugs. >> well, i'm a psych -- psychoph

but of women with this genetic mutation, 60% will get breast cancer. leading panel of health care experts says genetic testing is critical for women with a family history of breast cancer stemming from mutations in the brca-1 or 2 gene. but despite that, a new study has found that only 41% of doctors indicated they would recommend testing to high risk women. for women who test positive, and then undergo intensive screening or take preventative measures, they can decrease breast cancer incidence by 95%. they have the option of taking drugs that suppress estrogen, make lifestyle changes that limit smoking, drinking or diet, or, in some extreme cases, have preventative mastectomies. >> genetic testing for women can be lifesaving. >> reporter: so, were you surprised to learn that so many doctors are essentially ignoring the guidelines? >> doctors don't often take the time to get the family history it takes. and i think a lot of doctors aren't aware of those guidelines or what women are at high risk. >> reporter: so based on your family history, ask your do

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here is me a geneticist having my own genetic origin kept entirely secret. and i-- i, once we got a bit close, when i had my children, they were ten years of age and they had a project at school, family free project. and i said welcome and talk to your grandmother and grandfather about this, something interesting, you know, to do. actually dangerous giving projects to children at school if you ask mood me. anyway they got there and my 11-year-old daughter, 10-year-old daughter took off my mother grandmother and about five minutes ler she came out white into the room, okay. and i said what's the matter, mum. and she id wl sar, e na of daughter, just asked me about my parents. that is my-- and i had never told you but i was il legitimate. and i do not kno whomy father was and i was brought up by my grandmother. actually the same thing that happened to me. and afr she said that she then said and it'true for ur father too, who was pie grandfatr. if you put all of this together, i can see are you getting confused with my family free,-- tree, the only thing to tak

the finding has set off a new controversy and a warning from doctors who say the genetic artisan mind>>some mothers say that from the moment their children is born in noticed something ... other mothers see a dramatic change by age to two. the truth is doctors say they really don't know why ... there's an incredible increase inartistic spectrum diagnoses and we just don't have answers right now. >>and the archives of general psychology offers general explanations a combination of genetic factors and environmental causes ... >>if it was 100 percent genetic you think that both would develop got his man that has not and the case >>calculations show that 38 percent of optimism cases came from genetic causes and the rest from the environment but there is a wide margin for error in calculations ... rush university medical center doctors say more research is necessary ... >>people need to begin looking at different environmental possibilities that can increase the likelihood of children having ought to some ... anti- depressant by expectant mothers have been floated as possibilities along wi

hold him the boy has a rare and incurable genetic disease but. they simply threw him out like an unwanted kitten and picked a healthy one. while his healthy twin brother enjoys family life and tom has no one but hospital staff helping him to survive the boy's sorry mother who disappeared soon after the delivery little anton story is just one of the shocking examples of shortcomings in the russian family code that seeks to regulate sarrasin in the country. in our modern world the idea of surrogacy is sometimes distorted a given be used to avoid the hardships of pregnancy and to preserve the beauty of a body that turns surrogacy into a business renting out a womb costs from twenty to thirty thousand dollars however often either those who pay no the surrogate want to admit their involvement in the process the attitude to surrogacy in russia is ambiguous so many women simply don't want anyone to know their baby is carried by another woman of for many it's easier to resort to small or not such a small why how about one scene in public with this there

. >> what we believe is that autism is caused by a combination of genetic factors and maybe several geneticental factors that are coming together at critical periods of development. >> reporter: for decades, scientists believed most cases of autism, 90%, were caused by genetics. but the new study suggests environmental factors play a much larger role. researchers show their results showed a wide margin of error. but if they're right, this could open promising directions in autism research. one possible environmental cause? antidepressants. a separate study out this week found that mothers who took a first class of drugs called ssris during pregnancy, were twice as likely to have a child with autism. but what else? is it food? medicine? chemicals? the wirths have no idea why josh, who is 5 now has autism, and little brother, spencer, does not. >> we're grateful they're doing the study in hopes we e e able to help help give them some answers to find out what's going on. >> reporter: answers their family and so many others are hoping to find. barbara pinto, abc new chicago. >>> and when we com

modified products do we still in this case is very important that they should be genetically modified in a proper way of course so that some really autonomy us and independence structures of civil society could emerge they shouldn't be artificial organizations controlled by the state governments or any governments create anything they would not control that well the state is not supposed to create these structures what the state should do is create conditions for these structures to emerge in the regions that. is this you mean concerned this is our main task and we're absolutely not interested in creating artificial non-governmental organizations please and i can tell you that we are preparing a surprise for our upcoming meeting with the president i think it's a bill on citizen oversight as a corner because you see we already have a number of laws related to citizen oversight including a law on public oversight commissions in prisons for example this law has been working. for several years now and it is currently being revised there is also a law on the public chambre it has also been

if her mother is italian and her father is japanese which would make her half and half the genetic defect would come to the father then things would have to happen if they grew up in california. he grew up in pasadena which means he would be inturned. things start to happen without you looking at it from the beginning when writing a story but as you develop the characters and the year and the situation and the stories a father would tell a daughter. all this came out the camps, what happened. what he hoped for. what he wished for. all the stories he tells the daughters. some of them would have to cover that interment time and a lot is what happened from my research. all that went in the book. does that answer your question? it's not that i purposely said, now i will advocate this. but if a story line covers a certain aspect of history that you tell it to the greatest truth you can. you know, you talk about the situation and if you inhabit the characters, hopefully, in the right way you try to feel hathey would feel. >> thank you. >> we started reading your book in my classroom a couple of

understanding of the genetic bases of high yielding and stress resistance crops. to confront heat and pest, soil cylinder, we're using discoveries about genetic information to better predict and access access -- accelerate. selecting lines rather than labor consumer field trials. in the past few years, usda field research has helped reveal the research in a host of animals, including corn, soybeans, apple, pigs and grass as a great potential for biofuel crop. in the past few weeks alone we've published research of genome which damaged crops around the globe. this allows us to bypass generations of breeding and spring about more abundant and nutrition food. the new understanding of genetics is also having the impact on one the worlds most threatening agriculture challenges. the wheat stem rust. this devastating fungus is spreading across africa, asia, and the middle east with the potential to threaten crops that feed one billion people. the united states is playing a key role in the international effort to reduce it's effect and change. we have provided more than 1

one author says the research shows both the environment and genetics play an equal role. >> what we think about our study -- it shows about roughly half is genetic and the other half is environmental. >> reporter: the study did continue identify specific environmental factors, but the doctor hopes his research will launch more studies into what happens in the womb and soon after birth that may increase a child's chance of developing autism. at the pacific autism center for education in santa clara, executive director kurt alt says he's concerned the study may cause parents of autistic kids to feel guilt. >> i hope that this study only provides awareness about the impact of environment and doesn't cause people to get alarmed about the cause being -- the result of a particular action. there isn't just one action or one sequence of actions that causes this. >> reporter: some of the environmental factors that may influence a child developing autism might be parental age, low birth rates, and maternal infections during pregnancy. stanford researchers hope scientists will now take a broad persp

combination of environmental and genetic factors. >> we have identical twins you would have expectedntical twins would have the same likelihood 100 percent concordance if it was 100 percent genetic of developing autism and this study found that was not the case >> researchers initially found concordance rates of 77 percent for identical twins 31 percent for fraternal twins but then the data of that into a computer model and results changed dramatically. this time calculation showed 38 percent of autism came from genes 58 percent came from the environment study authors say there is a wide margin for error and thus the populations could be incorrect. those who help families with autism like rush university medical center dr. louis kraut says more research is necessary >> we need to make sure it is accurate and then began to look at other in bar at the possibilities that could increase the likelihood of having autism >> infections chemical exposure yvette ssri anti depressants taken by expectant mothers have been floated as possibilities but experts say until there is better evidence pa

. >>> it may not be genetics.he surprising study that could change everything we know about autism. >>> a man clings to a shopping cart to save his life. the harrowing rescue caught on tape. >>> she filed for divorce could a tell-all be next? the record-breaking offer for a maria shriver memoir. >>> if you have to catch a plane today, looking good at sfo. this afternoon, plenty of sunshine, 78 degrees. traveling across the country not bad toward the chicago area. maybe a couple of passing clouds. otherwise warm temperatures about 86 degrees. continuing on toward the eastern evened and headed in toward new york, i think we're looking very nice today, although it is going to be warm too. 88 degrees and mostly sunny skies. the rest of your local forecast coming right up. ,,,,,,,,,, i know you're worried about making your savings last and having enough income when you retire. that's why i'm here -- to help come up with a plan and get you on the right path. i have more than a thousand fidelity experts working with me s

. >>> environmental factors may play a bigger role than genetics when it comes to developing autism. researchers looked at nearly 200 pairs of twins both identical and fraternal where at least one sibling had an autism spectrum disorder. the study find genetics increased the risk of autism by 38% while environmental factors which could include parental age and low birthweight increased the risk by 58%. more research needs to be done into which environmental factors contributed to the risk. >>> the debate over raising the nation's debt limit resumes today on capitol hill. senators head back to work this afternoon head of schedule. >> white house members return wednesday. joel brown has more. >> reporter: the senate may be cutting its holiday recess short but it is unclear how much work will get done. republicans and democrats remain at odds over how to raise the nation adebt limit. the biggest sticking point is taxes. >> the last thing employers need is further disincentives to not hire people. and that's what the higher taxes would mean. >> while the g.o.p. wants tax hikes off the ta

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while they're there for god and few the russian children suffering from a rare genetic disease which few know how to cure and which can leave them badly scarred and in acute pain until now has been virtually ignored by the medical establishment but one mother is hoping to change that very much call reports. she likes don't sing and no one would guess the amount of pain lisa goes through to make these simple movements lisa has a rare genetic condition at their most his blows or even that makes her skin as thin as a butterfly wing it's like time. or a hug can cause painful blistering that takes a long time to heal leaving the skin even more fragile. around the world sufferers like lisa are known as butterfly children however in russia it's as if they don't exist right you bring the doctors simply don't know of the disease and when you tell them what it is they might have heard of it but they don't know how to deal with it kenya lizzie's only five but she already knows her diagnosis better than any doctor her mother knows there is no cure with proper medication her daughter could lead a