Targeted treatments for cancer have been extending and saving lives for more than 15 years — precision medicine isn’t a new idea…
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post Targeting Cancer: A Basketful of Hope
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post Another Evil TV Geneticist on Netflix’s “Between”
Ten years ago this month, I attended the Catalyst Workshop at the American Film Institute. The week-long program taught screenwriting to a…
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post Disappearing Down Syndrome, Genetic Counseling, and Textbook Coverage
Last week, several people sent me a perspective piece by bioethicist Art Caplan in PLOS Biology, “Chloe’s Law: A Powerful Legislative Movement Challenging…
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post Gene Splicing in Lice and the Challenge of Clothing
A terrific article recently published in Molecular Biology and Evolution, “Alternative Splice in Alternative Lice,” provides a compelling example of maximizing genome information…
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post Midsummer Updates at DNA Science
Summer is half over, so I thought I’d update a few posts. EMAN IN LIBERIA A year ago, I frantically wrote about…
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post Is Wayward Pines Genetically Plausible?
Tonight is the final episode, ever, of Wayward Pines, the 10-episode FOX television show that’s the best sci-fi I’ve seen since the…
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post “Saving Eliza” Campaign Helps Another Child
Valerie Byers had long suspected that her son Will’s diagnosis of autism was wrong. So when she saw a clip on the…
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post Hannah’s Hair – Why Traits Matter
It’s an unacknowledged law of nature that whatever the texture of a girl’s hair, she wants the opposite. For years I wrapped…
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post Aicardi Syndrome: Genome Sequencing Illuminates Another Rare Disease
As my inbox fills with ever more updates on the number of human genomes sequenced and the plummeting time and cost of…
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post When Celebrities Suddenly Care About Rare Diseases
I have followed, in awe, the tireless efforts of families that have rare genetic diseases to raise awareness and funds. Bake sales…
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post “Genes in Space” Student Finalists Announced
I thought for sure some of us would be living on the moon, or beyond, by now. In the late 1960s, it…
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post Why Do Healthy People Have Harmful Mutations?
“NIH researchers pilot predictive medicine by studying healthy people’s DNA,” read the headline of a news release yesterday. The news release, about…