In a list of famous genes, RB1 would probably be #1. It’s the tumor suppressor gene whose “loss of function” is behind…
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post Second Gene Causes RetinoblastomaRead more
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post Do Cats With FIV Foretell HIV’s Future?Read more
Since my January 24 blog “My Cat Has AIDS,” about my two feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV)-positive cats, we’ve acquired a third, the handsome…
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post Personalized Medicine: Read the Chart!Read more
While we’re busy debating the pros and cons of clinical genome sequencing and tossing around buzzwords like “personalized” and “translational” medicine…
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post Rare Disease Day: What 5 Kids with Low Vision CAN DoRead more
In honor of Rare Disease Day, I caught up with some of the wonderful families I’ve met whose children have Leber congenital…
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post Do You Know Genetics?Read more
This week’s guest blog is from University of San Diego senior Courtney Chow. By Courtney Chow The field of genetics has made…
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post A Fruit Fly Love Story: The Making of a MutantRead more
For Valentine’s Day, here is a fly’s eye view of my PhD research on the mutation Antennapedia, which causes fruit flies to…
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post Genetic Testing: Carrier Confusion and Generation ReversalRead more
In the usual trajectory of passing on genetic information, the older tell the younger, when the time is right. Typically, a patient…
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post Another Bump in the Road to Gene Therapy?Read more
I am astonished, once again, by the complexity and unpredictability of science. Last week, a paper in the Proceedings of the…
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post My Cat Has AIDSRead more
Juice was an impulse buy. It was early July 2003, and we were headed to the mall for a gift for Carly…
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post Retinal Stem Cells and Eye of NewtRead more
More than a decade before Sally Temple, PhD, and her husband Jeffrey Stern, MD, PhD, discovered stem cells in human eyes, they suspected…
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post The Crud: Viral or Bacterial?Read more
My immune system is still on hyperdrive from what may have been the flu 3 weeks ago. I qualify my self-diagnosis because…
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post Comparing Adam Lanza’s DNA to Forensic DNA Databases: A Modest ProposalRead more
In 1729, Jonathan Swift of Gulliver’s Travels fame published a satirical essay called “A Modest Proposal.” He suggested that a cure for poverty…