Washington, D.C. I’m at the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy annual meeting, one of my favorite conferences. The very first talk provided…
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post A Checklist for Gene Therapy From the UK Cystic Fibrosis TrialRead more
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post Of Tissue-Engineered Vaginas and Default OptionsRead more
I’m old enough to remember textbooks and biology classes that defined being female as a “default option” in human development. If the…
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post Great News For The Progeria CommunityRead more
A repurposed drug that reverses some of the rapid-aging symptoms of Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome also extends life, according to a new…
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post Mutations in 115-Year-Old Provide Perspective for Personal Genome SequencingRead more
Normally, I wouldn’t post about a report that’s already reverberated through the blogosphere, but the finding of hundreds of mutations in the…
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post Celebrating DNA Day, 2014Read more
April 25, DNA Day, commemorates the date in 1953 when James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, and Rosalind Franklin introduced the structure…
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post Chromosomal Clues to Past Pregnancy LossRead more
Genetics is, in a sense, timeless. DNA sequences stay mostly the same in an individual over a lifetime. Minus the inevitable somatic…
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post Call the Midwife Evokes Cystic Fibrosis in a Simpler TimeRead more
Previous posts bashing SyFy’s Helix and Dan Brown’s Inferno might suggest that I’m hypercritical of TV and films. Happily, the third season premiere of…
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post ALS Treatment (in Cells) – Too Late for Glenn, But Wonderful NewsRead more
I was cutting and pasting a post about Sunday night’s episode of Call the Midwife, which was about cystic fibrosis, when a…
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post Signal Transduction: Poetry in MotionRead more
When I was in school, the scary parts of biology were cellular respiration and the synthesis and degradation pathways of the 20 amino…
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post A Challenge to the Supremacy of DNA as the Genetic MaterialRead more
About a month ago, a news release stood out among the many I get every day: “A challenge to the genetic interpretation…
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post Clinical Whole Genome Sequencing: Not Quite Ready for Prime Time?Read more
When I posted “Why I Don’t Want to Know My Genome Sequence here in November 2012, I got a lot of grief…
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post Mitohype: 3-Parent Designer Babies Who Will Change Human EvolutionRead more
If I turned in a 20,337 word article and the editor decided to replace 37 of those words, would I call her…