Scary monsters, time travel, and a female protagonist plucked from The Handmaid’s Tale cast: what could be better? A Derivative Plot with…
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post The Tomorrow War on Amazon Prime Echoes COVID: Science from the Past Saves Humanity’s FutureRead more
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post New Target for Treating Huntington’s Disease: Controlling Runaway DNA RepairRead more
When results of a clinical trial of a treatment for a rare disease are disappointing, feelings of despair among hopeful affected families…
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post Returning to Live Music and How a Tiny Mutation Sent Delta All Over the WorldRead more
A few nights ago I went to my first live music show since pre-pandemic times: Ann Wilson, the vocalist from Heart. She…
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post Cats’ Genomes Make Them Good Models for Human DiseaseRead more
Over the years, I’ve shared my home with 17 felines. Several have perched on my printer while I cranked out many articles…
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post Scary Variants and Vaccine Hesitancy Set Up a Perfect Storm – for the VirusRead more
As people in the US grapple with a return to masking to stay ahead of the delta and lambda variants and their…
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post Katla on Netflix: Volcanoes, Glaciers, and Meteorites, Oh My!Read more
I usually write about a sci fi book or film midsummer. That’s more necessary this summer than ever, when science reality &ndash…
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post Looking Into a COVID Lung Using Spatial TranscriptomicsRead more
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 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…