I thought for sure some of us would be living on the moon, or beyond, by now. In the late 1960s, it…
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post “Genes in Space” Student Finalists AnnouncedRead more
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post Why Do Healthy People Have Harmful Mutations?Read more
“NIH researchers pilot predictive medicine by studying healthy people’s DNA,” read the headline of a news release yesterday. The news release, about…
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post Can We Cure Huntington’s Disease?Read more
I didn’t cry until page 123 of Lisa Genova’s terrific new novel Inside the O’Briens. That’s when 44-year-old Boston police officer Joe…
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post DNA Profiling of Cat WasteRead more
“Bring in a stool sample,” says the vet. But that’s not so easy in a multi-cat household. I recently faced this problem…
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post Gene Therapy for Blindness Works!Read more
The news this week presented at a major vision conference and published in The New England Journal of Medicine about gene therapy to…
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post AGTC Tackles 3 Eye Diseases with Gene TherapyRead more
September will be 25 years since the first gene therapy experiment, and FDA approval is finally in sight. Several gene therapies are…
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post Adventures in Stem Cell LandRead more
Two weeks ago a neurologist asked me to blog about a US-based company that is offering stem cell treatments, because it had…
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post Assessing Breast Cancer Risk: Beyond the Angelina EffectRead more
On April 30 at 7:30 PM, I’ll be part of a panel on Health Link with Benita Zahn, WMHT TV, to discuss the…
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post Leroy Stevens: Fairwell to The Unsung Hero of Stem Cell ResearchRead more
Yesterday a Google Alert popped up with a blast from my past, an obituary for Jackson Lab researcher Leroy C. Stevens. It quoted…
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post Autism Gene Discovery Recalls Alzheimer’s and BRCA1 StoriesRead more
Discovery of a new gene behind autism cleverly combines genetic techniques new and classic. Autism has been difficult to characterize genetically. It…
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post Universal Newborn Genome Sequencing and Generation AlphaRead more
Imagine the day that genome sequencing of all newborns begins. Instantly two cohorts of people will form: the expanding youngest, with a…
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post CRISPR Meets iPS: Technologies Converge to Tackle Sickle Cell DiseaseRead more
Researchers from Johns Hopkins University have teamed two powerful technologies to correct sickle cell disease. Linzhao Cheng and colleagues have deployed CRISPR/Cas-9…