Last Wednesday, I finally met Dr. D. Holmes Morton, a pediatrician who is quietly conquering genetic disease among the Amish and Mennonites…
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post An Advocate for the Amish at a Very Special ClinicRead more
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post A Brother’s Love Fights Genetic DiseaseRead more
Gene therapy has been in the news recently, for awards. The same day that publisher Mary Ann Liebert Inc. honored 12 “pioneers…
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post Why 23andMe is Not for Me — YetRead more
A year ago I posted Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing: A New View, describing the unveiling of dtc testing at the American Society of…
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post Another Blind Boy Sees the Light, Thanks to Gene TherapyRead more
A funny thing happened on the way to this week’s blog post. I’d planned a guest post from a father who very…
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post NextCODE Health Mines deCODE’s Data, and More, to Catalyze Clinical DiagnosisRead more
Like the mythical Phoenix bird reborn from its own ashes, deCODE Genetics, or at least its data, resurfaced in October in the…
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post Tracing African-American Roots Through DNARead more
AncestryDNA.com recently expanded its coverage of western Africa, enabling African-Americans to trace back to these areas, and to find cousins anywhere in…
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post From Gene Therapy to Chromosome Therapy: The New Gets Old as The Old Becomes NewRead more
BOSTON This week is the highlight of my year – the American Society of Human Genetics meeting. I headed straight to…
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post Keeping Up With the HomininsRead more
Late Sunday night I had just finished revising chapter 16, Human Origins, in my genetics textbook when the news releases for the…
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post How Craig Venter Created LifeRead more
Last week’s DNA Science post caused an uproar because I suggested that some people might think life begins at a period other than…
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post When Does a Human Life Begin? 17 TimepointsRead more
I rerun this most-read post about when human life begins every time that the discussion resurges, which is usually in the shadow…
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post A BRCA JourneyRead more
The day after PLOS Genetics asked me to blog in relation to Jane Gitschier’s interview with Mary-Claire King, my friend Lisa’s daughter Maya…
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post DNA Analysis of Chobani Yogurt: Guest Post by Nick ConleyRead more
Identification-by-DNA has had eclectic uses: outing fake sushi, detecting horsemeat in Ikea meatballs, and capturing a murderer thanks to a telltale hair…