On a spectacular September Sunday in 2008, 8-year-old Corey Haas, a cane in one hand and his mother’s hand in the other…
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post As Blindness Gene Therapy Nears FDA Finish Line, A Shout-Out to Activist Families
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post Brain Cancer in Kids: Tailoring Treatment Based on Mutations
I’ll admit it, I was sucked in. “Sharon was given a few months to live if her cancer wasn’t treated,” somberly intones…
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post Poliovirus To Treat Brain Cancer: A Curious Chronology
Certain things have a natural order. Breakfast before lunch. Infancy before adolescence. Autumn before winter. So I was surprised to read an…
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post White Supremacy: The Dark Side of Eugenics
Whenever I work on a new edition of my human genetics textbook and reach the section on eugenics, at the end of…
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post Gene Therapy and September Scenes
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 A Genetic Disease With a Domino Effect: Multiple Sulfatase Deficiency
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?
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 Diagnosis
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?
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?
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 High
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 Series
I was so looking forward to the third season of Wayward Pines, which DNA Science covered in the summers of 2015 and 2016…