“My brain! It’s my second favorite organ!” cried an aghast Woody Allen as his time-traveling character in 1973’s Sleeper, Miles Monroe, was…
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post 10 Reasons Why Growing A Human Brain-in-a-Dish is TerrificRead more
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post Battling Batten DiseaseRead more
Last week’s blog post was about a little girl who had a genetic disease that usually strikes adults. This week’s post is about…
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post DNA Day and 20 Years of Writing a Human Genetics TextbookRead more
This month we celebrate the DNA anniversaries: unveiling of DNA’s structure in 1953, and the human genome sequence in 2003. From now…
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post Genetic Modifiers: Healthy Mutants Fuel Drug DiscoveryRead more
I’m uneasy counseling a patient for mutations in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 cancer susceptibility genes. Typically, she’ll have a “first degree relative&rdquo…
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post Do You Know Genetics?Read more
This week’s guest blog is from University of San Diego senior Courtney Chow. By Courtney Chow The field of genetics has made…
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post Genetic Testing: Carrier Confusion and Generation ReversalRead more
In the usual trajectory of passing on genetic information, the older tell the younger, when the time is right. Typically, a patient…
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post Progress for ProgeriaRead more
Surely progeria is among the saddest of genetic diseases, and one of the rarest. The recent finding that a shelved cancer drug…