2017 is supposed to be the year that FDA finally approves a gene therapy. But last week, the company behind the first…
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post Pulling the Plug on the First Gene Therapy DrugRead more
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post Saving GINA: Is Genetic Privacy Imperiled?Read more
A bill that passed its first hurdle yesterday in Congress threatens to take away genetic privacy protections put in place with the…
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post Linking Gaucher and Parkinson’s DiseasesRead more
This month, JScreen’s “Spit Happens” campaign is covering all costs not met by insurance for testing for carrier status for Gaucher disease, thanks…
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post When a Bad Animal Model is Good: Cystic FibrosisRead more
A “good” animal model is one that has the same symptoms of a disease that we do, right? Not always. Sometimes we…
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post Why Do Healthy People Have Harmful Mutations?Read more
“NIH researchers pilot predictive medicine by studying healthy people’s DNA,” read the headline of a news release yesterday. The news release, about…
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post Universal Newborn Genome Sequencing and Generation AlphaRead more
Imagine the day that genome sequencing of all newborns begins. Instantly two cohorts of people will form: the expanding youngest, with a…
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post How to Use the Genetic Code for PasswordsRead more
Need a password for a new device or service? Try the genetic code. Messenger RNA triplets and the amino acids they…
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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 Exon Skipping: Borrowing from Nature to Treat Rare Genetic DiseasesRead more
Imagine selecting, copying, and pasting this sentence into a new document, but dropping or adding a word. The meaning might change &mdash…
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post Probing Polar Bodies to Pick Disease-Free EmbryosRead more
After writing eleven editions of a human genetics textbook, I automatically assign chapter numbers to exciting new findings. But the 3-page case…
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post DNA Science Blog is One Year Old!Read more
I’m coming up on the 52nd entry of the DNA Science Blog, and so below is a linked list of my sometimes…