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 Post-Election Health Effects … Not Just Psychological?Read more
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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…
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post Pulling the Plug on the First Gene Therapy DrugRead more
2017 is supposed to be the year that FDA finally approves a gene therapy. But last week, the company behind the first…
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post Dueling BRCA Databases: What About the Patient?Read more
The news release Monday morning grabbed my attention: “Study finds wide gap in quality of BRCA1/2 variant classification between Myriad Genetics and…
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post After Gene Therapy: Hannah’s Journey ContinuesRead more
Thirteen-year-old Hannah Sames looked beautiful two weeks ago at the annual Hannah’s Hope Fund gala near her hometown and mine. She’d put on 15…
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post Octopuses, Squid, and Cuttlefish: RNA Editing Instead of Genome Evolution?Read more
It isn’t surprising that the intelligent alien life forms that communicate with Amy Adams’ linguistics professor character Louise Banks in last year’s…