CRISPR continues to be big news. Condemnation of the gene editing technology was swift late last year when a researcher in China…
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post CRISPRed Exosomes Correct Rett Syndrome Communication Breakdown
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post How a Mutation Turned Almonds from Toxin to Treat
Eating just 50 bitter almonds can release enough hydrogen cyanide to kill an adult in under 3 minutes. Fortunately, the sweet variety that we…
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post Beaver Feces Inspire a Way to Convert Type A to Type O Human Blood
My writing assignments for Medscape Medical News tend to be formulaic: summarize the findings of an interesting new paper, enabling busy health care…
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post When a Rare Mutation Causes a Rare Disease: Jacob’s Story
For some parents, a physician’s advice to “just take him home and love him,” presumably letting nature take it’s most likely course…
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post Revising Textbook Coverage of Prenatal Diagnosis in an Anti-choice Climate
I’ve become a stalker. When I recently stopped at an intersection behind a car with bumper stickers “Make Abortion Criminal Again” and…
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post Clinical Trial Set to Start for CLN1 Batten Disease
On May 21, Abeona Therapeutics announced the go-ahead from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a clinical trial to test a…
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post Anatomy of an Impossible Burger
Burger King is going to sell the Impossible Burger and McDonald’s is soon to follow with its own meatless patty. So I thought I’d…
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post Thriving in Thin Air Goes Back 160,000 Years to the Denisovans, New Study Finds
Fleshing out the details of ancient humanity has typically begun with fossil finds and then, years later, sequencing genes and genomes. That…
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post DNA Day Has a New Meaning For Me This Year: I’m an NPE
“Not parent expected” – NPE – is a surprise that thousands of us have gotten as a result of consumer ancestry DNA…
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post An Ultrarare Liver Disease, PFIC2: Trinity’s Story
Ultrarare genetic diseases often appear with a series of symptoms that might seem unconnected. Brooke Harrison Ramirez’s pregnancy had been easy eight…
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post Milkweed Bug Genome Revealed
I’ll admit that I have long admired the beauty of the large milkweed bug Oncopeltus fasciatus, without knowing anything about it. So…
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post Cataracts and Amyloid Beta: Early Marker and New Drug Target?
I’ve just had cataract surgeries, so I wasn’t thrilled to find a new report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…