Lately I feel like I’m living in an alternate universe that is the polar opposite of the British dystopian anthology Black Mirror…
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post Nixing School Vaccination Requirements May Welcome Back These Infectious DiseasesRead more
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post New Memoir Chronicles the Heartbreak of Huntington’s DiseaseRead more
An eloquent, funny, and heartbreaking new memoir tells the story of Charise Pfeffer, who died in 2024 at age 43 from Huntington’s…
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post Cats as a Model for Alzheimer’s DiseaseRead more
Larry and I have had 17 or so felines as members of our household. Babycat was the only one to be diagnosed…
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post A Genetic Basis for StutteringRead more
A new study that identifies genetic links to stuttering may go a long way towards dampening the associated stigma. On March 9…
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post Taming Stem Cell Treatment for Fanconi AnemiaRead more
Fanconi anemia is the most common inherited bone marrow failure. The condition depletes all types of blood cells: the red cells that…
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post A Pop Quiz in Biology for RFK JrRead more
The only requirement for assuming the position of US Secretary for Health and Human Services is being picked by the President and…
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post Probing Poop for Pathogen DNA: Diarrhea Genomics, a First-World Advance Contrasts with USAID Cuts in AfricaRead more
When I saw a news release describing a test in development to sequence pathogen genomes in diarrhea, my geneticist side was, at…
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post Something in the Air – Environmental DNA UpdateRead more
DNA is the calling card of life. In and on our bodies, traces of DNA sequences other than our own announce the…
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post Owning A Dog May Protect Against EczemaRead more
About 100 million adults and 100 million children worldwide have the red, flaky, itchy skin of the most common form of eczema…
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post A Trio of Novels Based on Rare Genetic Disease: Middlesex, The Covenant of Water, and The SirensRead more
I love when fiction unfurls a compelling tale whose protagonist has an ultrarare genetic disease. My most recent favorite is The Sirens…
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post CRISPR Gene Editing Outpaces Gene Therapy: The Groundbreaking Case of KJ MuldoonRead more
Nine-month-old KJ Muldoon made global headlines following a report in The New England Journal of Medicine, from Kiran Musunuru and Becca Ahrens-Nicklas…
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post How Flowers Came to Smell like Rotted Flesh: Another Genetic Just-So StoryRead more
Not all flowers emit odors that are enticing to humans. Three types of flowering plants – Asarum simile, Eurya japonica, and Symplocarpus…