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 A New Biological Aging Clock: Ribosomal DNA
Chronological aging is easy to track – birthdays. Biological aging can be obvious too – graying hair, sagging skin, and other inexorable…
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post Gene Therapy for Type 1 Diabetes: Preclinical Promise
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 ALS Target: Microglia
Glia, perhaps the most underappreciated of cell types, are finally getting some attention. A new report in Science Translational Medicine from Kevin Eggan’s…
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post DNA Science Blog is One Year Old!
I’m coming up on the 52nd entry of the DNA Science Blog, and so below is a linked list of my sometimes…
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post Two Intriguing Tumors: Fibroids and Teratomas
Genome sequencing studies can be boring. It’s not that there are too many of them, although that will surely happen, but sometimes…
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post A Conversation with CRISPR-Cas9 Inventors Charpentier and Doudna
Congrats to Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier for winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2020. The idea to edit DNA sequences and…
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post Organoids: Beyond the Breakthrough of the Year
Science magazine’s Breakthrough of the Year for 2018 is “Development cell by cell: Scientists are tracking embryo development in stunning detail.” The announcement rightly…
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post Hybrid White Rhino Embryos: Genetic Rescue, Part 2
Two weeks ago, DNA Science covered the plight of the northern white rhino, suggesting assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) that might preserve the…
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post CRISPR Clarifies Split-Hand/Foot
While James R. Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, calls genome editing a “national security threat”, bioethicists warn of CRISPR-created superbabies, and prominent researchers…
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post A Conversation with CRISPR-Cas9 Inventors Charpentier and Doudna
At the American Society of Human Genetics meeting in October, CRISPR-Cas9 inventors Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier accepted the Gruber Genetics Prize, then…
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post “Genes in Space” Student Finalists Announced
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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