A hypothetical heterosexual couple living in the US or UK takes tests to learn if they are carriers of the more prevalent…
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post Cystic Fibrosis Among Asians: Why Ethnicity-Based Genetic Testing is Obsolete
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post Can CRISPR Conquer Huntington’s?
I set a high bar for writing about mouse studies. I don’t include them in my textbooks or news articles, and only…
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post Post-Election Health Effects … Not Just Psychological?
Buried in the lower right corner of last week’s New England Journal of Medicine – not up on the left, which spawns the…
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post Wolf Evolution and “Settled Science”
Are the red and eastern wolves separate species, or hybrids with coyotes? And what has that got to do with climate change?…
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post Repost: Celebrating Brian Druker (ASCO 2017) and Basic Research
In recognition of (PLOS ONE author and founding member of the journal’s Board of Directors) Dr. Brian J. Druker’s receipt of the ASCO…
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post Spinach Genome Reveals a Living Fossil
Imagine being spinach. Sidelined in the produce section of a supermarket, bagged and bunched into a sad uniformity mere feet from the…
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post 5 New Buzzwords Borrowed From Biology
I’ve just finished revising the latest edition of my human genetics textbook, and while checking the glossary, discovered several potential new buzzwords…
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post Will Short Term and Long Term Treatments for Single-Gene Diseases Survive?
Two weeks and several political disasters ago, the House of Representatives passed the American Health Care Act of 2017, and soon lists…
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post An American Horror Story: The AHCA and Anencephaly
Last week I read with incredulity section 215 of the American Health Care Act, the part that states that it “does not include…
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post Did Christianity Speed Chicken Evolution?
Did a Christian dietary practice speed the evolution of the domestic chicken about 1100 years ago? A new report in Molecular Biology…
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post Pulling the Plug on the First Gene Therapy Drug
2017 is supposed to be the year that FDA finally approves a gene therapy. But last week, the company behind the first…
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post Dueling BRCA Databases: What About the Patient?
The news release Monday morning grabbed my attention: “Study finds wide gap in quality of BRCA1/2 variant classification between Myriad Genetics and…