Sequencing genomes to diagnose puzzling symptoms presents a conundrum: how to interpret whether a person’s genotype causes the syndrome without comparison to…
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post Genome Cloaking Preserves Privacy While Enabling DiagnosisRead more
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post Are Stem Cell Companies Abusing ClinicalTrials.gov?Read more
I’m often asked about the safety of treatments that purport to inject stem cells into painful body parts. The reputation of stem…
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post Charlie Gard Post-Mortem: Could He Have Been Saved?Read more
Charlie Gard would have turned one year old tomorrow. Two days before the British infant died of a mitochondrial disease on July…
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post Luxturna: A Giant Step Forward for Blindness Gene Therapy – A Conversation with Dr. Kathy HighRead more
Three years ago, at a fundraiser near Philadelphia for the Curing Retinal Blindness Foundation, I stood, dumbstruck, as young teen Christian Guardino…
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post Salvation: Sexual Stereotypes in Sappy Summer SciFi SeriesRead more
I was so looking forward to the third season of Wayward Pines, which DNA Science covered in the summers of 2015 and 2016…
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post Cystic Fibrosis Among Asians: Why Ethnicity-Based Genetic Testing is ObsoleteRead more
A hypothetical heterosexual couple living in the US or UK takes tests to learn if they are carriers of the more prevalent…
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post Can CRISPR Conquer Huntington’s?Read more
I set a high bar for writing about mouse studies. I don’t include them in my textbooks or news articles, and only…
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post Post-Election Health Effects … Not Just Psychological?Read more
Buried in the lower right corner of last week’s New England Journal of Medicine – not up on the left, which spawns the…
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post Wolf Evolution and “Settled Science”Read more
Are the red and eastern wolves separate species, or hybrids with coyotes? And what has that got to do with climate change?…
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post Repost: Celebrating Brian Druker (ASCO 2017) and Basic ResearchRead more
In recognition of (PLOS ONE author and founding member of the journal’s Board of Directors) Dr. Brian J. Druker’s receipt of the ASCO…
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post Spinach Genome Reveals a Living FossilRead more
Imagine being spinach. Sidelined in the produce section of a supermarket, bagged and bunched into a sad uniformity mere feet from the…
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post 5 New Buzzwords Borrowed From BiologyRead more
I’ve just finished revising the latest edition of my human genetics textbook, and while checking the glossary, discovered several potential new buzzwords…