“Genotyping isn’t standard of care, so we don’t do it,” said the surgeon dismissively to me a week ago, as if I’d…
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post My Husband’s Rare CancerRead more
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post Cow Embryos Reveal New Type of Chromosome ChimeraRead more
I’ve often wondered what happens between the time an egg is fertilized and the time the ball of cells that it becomes…
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post Eliza Gets Her Gene TherapyRead more
Keeping a little girl at home for 722 days may seem cruel, but for the O’Neill family, it was a demonstration of…
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post Gene Therapy for Type 1 Diabetes: Preclinical PromiseRead more
Despite eclectic ways of delivering insulin to control blood glucose level in people with type 1 diabetes (T1D), no approach precisely replicates…
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post How Kevin Spacey is Altering Our GenesRead more
Ridiculous headline? It’s just about as ridiculous as the one that circulated widely late last week: “Fructose alters hundreds of brain genes…
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post No Pain and Extreme Pain From One GeneRead more
The family from northern Pakistan is one of the strangest to appear in the scientific literature. At its center is a 10-year-old…
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post Second Gene Therapy Nears Approval in Europe: Lessons for CRISPR?Read more
CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing has been around not even 4 years, and people are avidly discussing its promises and perils (see “The Public and…
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post Redhead Gene Doubles Melanoma Risk, Without SunRead more
Variants of the melanocortin-1 receptor (MC1R) gene impart the red hair, fair skin, and freckles of a Prince Harry, Wilma Flintstone, or…
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post Gorilla Genome 2.0: Lessons for the Clinic?Read more
The unveiling of a new and improved gorilla genome sequence this week in Science isn’t a “first,” but the differences between it and…
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post Craig Venter’s Synthetic Genome 3.0 Evokes Classic ExperimentsRead more
J. Craig Venter and his colleagues at Synthetic Genomics Inc update their efforts to create a “hypothetical minimal genome” in this week’s Science. “JCVI-syn3.0,&rdquo…
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post From Denisovan DNA to Future HumanityRead more
The idea that the genomes of those of us without African ancestry harbor some DNA from Neanderthals has inspired cartoons and jokes…
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post Need Help Interpreting Direct-To-Consumer DNA Test Results? Ask a Genetic CounselorRead more
Can health care providers adequately explain results from direct-to-consumer (DTC) DNA tests to patients? “Consumer Perceptions of Interactions With Primary Care Providers…