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 Luxturna: A Giant Step Forward for Blindness Gene Therapy – A Conversation with Dr. Kathy HighRead more
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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…
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post Will Short Term and Long Term Treatments for Single-Gene Diseases Survive?Read more
Two weeks and several political disasters ago, the House of Representatives passed the American Health Care Act of 2017, and soon lists…
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post An American Horror Story: The AHCA and AnencephalyRead more
Last week I read with incredulity section 215 of the American Health Care Act, the part that states that it “does not include…
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post Did Christianity Speed Chicken Evolution?Read more
Did a Christian dietary practice speed the evolution of the domestic chicken about 1100 years ago? A new report in Molecular Biology…