As the early weeks of the pandemic unfolded and health care workers struggled to save so many lives, researchers began tracking the…
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post Looking Into a COVID Lung Using Spatial TranscriptomicsRead more
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post Hulu’s False Positive Misses the Mark in Evoking Rosemary’s BabyRead more
I looked forward to Hulu’s original horror film False Positive, pitched as a modern-day Rosemary’s Baby. It premiered at the Tribeca Film…
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post A Virus Envisions a Post Pandemic USRead more
I’m tired of writing about COVID from a geneticist’s point of view, so I thought I’d let a virus speak – about…
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post Tracing the Origins of Medical Media Hype: Failing to Mention MiceRead more
Reading a breathless account of an amazing new medical treatment, lured in by an exciting headline, only to discover a few paragraphs…
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post Revising a Human Genetics Textbook and Countering Vaccine HesitancyRead more
I haven’t thought or written much about human genetics since COVID hit, instead cranking out articles about the novel coronavirus and the…
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post The Treatabolome Will Shorten Diagnostic Odysseys for Rare DiseasesRead more
The journey of naming an odd collection of symptoms is called, for good reason, the diagnostic odyssey. It can take years for…
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post How Viral Variants AriseRead more
The public has had a crash course in virology. But sometimes media coverage spews jargon so fast, often without definitions or descriptions…
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post The H5N8 Bird Flu and Why We Should Pay AttentionRead more
Before COVID, reports of a new bird flu trickling or even sweeping out of Asia didn’t garner much attention. That’s certainly changed…
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post Wishbone Day Raises Awareness of Osteogenesis ImperfectaRead more
Today, May 6th, is Wishbone Day, to raise awareness about osteogenesis imperfecta (OI). Also known as “brittle bone disease,” OI is a…
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post Genomics to the Rescue for Sumatran RhinosRead more
Sumatran rhinoceroses are solitary creatures that browse the dense rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra, living in small, scattered, shrinking groups. Taking a…
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post Expand Rapid Testing to Help Counter COVID Variant Spread, Says Harvard Epidemiologist Michael MinaRead more
I just returned from an enlightening trip to CVS, to photograph Abbott Lab’s at-home rapid antigen test for COVID, BinaxNOW. It became…
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post 3 Possible Origins of COVID: Lab Escapee, Evolution, or Mutator Genes?Read more
“Virus outbreak: research says COVID-19 likely synthetic,” shouted the headline in the Taipei Times on February 23, 2020. The idea that the…