Today I’m giving an invited lecture at Georgia College, “Gene Therapy: A Forever Fix”? I’ve given the talk many times, since my…
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post Gene Therapy and September ScenesRead more
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post A Genetic Disease With a Domino Effect: Multiple Sulfatase DeficiencyRead more
Willow is a beautiful name. Meaning slender and graceful, like the tree, it evokes images of a little girl running through the…
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post Were Ancient Humans Healthier Than Us?Read more
A curious thing happened when researchers at Georgia Tech used modern human genome sequences to look back at the possible health of…
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post Genome Cloaking Preserves Privacy While Enabling DiagnosisRead more
Sequencing genomes to diagnose puzzling symptoms presents a conundrum: how to interpret whether a person’s genotype causes the syndrome without comparison to…
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post Are Stem Cell Companies Abusing ClinicalTrials.gov?Read more
I’m often asked about the safety of treatments that purport to inject stem cells into painful body parts. The reputation of stem…
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post Charlie Gard Post-Mortem: Could He Have Been Saved?Read more
Charlie Gard would have turned one year old tomorrow. Two days before the British infant died of a mitochondrial disease on July…
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post Luxturna: A Giant Step Forward for Blindness Gene Therapy – A Conversation with Dr. Kathy HighRead more
Three years ago, at a fundraiser near Philadelphia for the Curing Retinal Blindness Foundation, I stood, dumbstruck, as young teen Christian Guardino…
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post Salvation: Sexual Stereotypes in Sappy Summer SciFi SeriesRead more
I was so looking forward to the third season of Wayward Pines, which DNA Science covered in the summers of 2015 and 2016…
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post Cystic Fibrosis Among Asians: Why Ethnicity-Based Genetic Testing is ObsoleteRead more
A hypothetical heterosexual couple living in the US or UK takes tests to learn if they are carriers of the more prevalent…
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post Can CRISPR Conquer Huntington’s?Read more
I set a high bar for writing about mouse studies. I don’t include them in my textbooks or news articles, and only…
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post Post-Election Health Effects … Not Just Psychological?Read more
Buried in the lower right corner of last week’s New England Journal of Medicine – not up on the left, which spawns the…
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post Wolf Evolution and “Settled Science”Read more
Are the red and eastern wolves separate species, or hybrids with coyotes? And what has that got to do with climate change?…