For Valentine’s Day, I offer a fly’s eye view of my PhD research on the mutation Antennapedia, which replaces fruit flies’ antennae…
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post A Fruit Fly Love Story: The Making of a Mutant 2020Read more
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post The Giant Squid Genome Holds SurprisesRead more
I’ve been thinking about invertebrates often lately, and so was delighted to learn that the genome of the giant squid has been…
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post New View of the Brink of Cancer May Validate Preventive MastectomyRead more
Women who have prophylactic mastectomies to stay ahead of a BRCA2 mutation may have made a wise choice, according to findings of…
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post The Wuhan Coronavirus Inspires a Look Back at the Discovery of VirusesRead more
I’m astonished at the speed with which geneticists and epidemiologists are zeroing in on the Wuhan coronavirus. Nomenclature is still up in…
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post How Breast Cancer Reunited Six High School FriendsRead more
Four of the six of us from my high school inner circle have had breast cancer over the past two years. And…
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post Will New Knowledge of Gender Identity Genomics Counter Discrimination?Read more
If legislation being developed by State Rep. Ginny Ehrhart, (R-Powder Springs, Georgia) goes forward, a physician who provides surgery or hormones to…
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post FDA Approvals in 2019 Reflect Eclectic Ways to Treat Genetic DiseaseRead more
It was a good year for new treatments for genetic diseases! Of the 44 FDA approvals of new drugs, 8 were for 6…
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post 5,700-Year-Old Lola, Her Genome Sequenced from Gum, Joins Other Named ForebearsRead more
About 5,700 years ago in southern Denmark, a woman enjoyed a meal of hazelnuts and duck, then chewed gum made from the…
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post Family with Two Rare Syndromes Reveals Immunity GlitchRead more
Members of a three-generation family in France who suffer from widespread infections and fragile skin, joints, bones, and blood vessels share an…
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post Camel Milk and Autism: Connecting the Genetic DotsRead more
After reading Christina Adams’s new book Camel Crazy: A Quest for Miracles in the Mysterious World of Camels (New World Library), I may…
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post FDA Scrutinizes Fecal TransplantsRead more
On Monday November 5, officials at the FDA listened for three hours to arguments for and against “fecal microbiota transplants” – mostly…
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post The Peaceable Genomes of PumpkinsRead more
Anyone who’s tossed a pumpkin onto the lawn after Halloween to discover vines snaking along the ground the next summer knows how…