The idea that the genomes of those of us without African ancestry harbor some DNA from Neanderthals has inspired cartoons and jokes…
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post From Denisovan DNA to Future Humanity
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post Need Help Interpreting Direct-To-Consumer DNA Test Results? Ask a Genetic Counselor
Can health care providers adequately explain results from direct-to-consumer (DTC) DNA tests to patients? “Consumer Perceptions of Interactions With Primary Care Providers…
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post Bringing Genomics to High School Students: A Survival Guide
(This week DNA Science has a guest post from Sergio Pistoi, a science writer and molecular biologist from Italy.) When I gave…
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post Rare Disease Day 2016: Huntington’s Disease Update
Things do happen for a reason. The editors of PLOS asked me weeks ago to post today, Rare Disease Day, about Huntington’s…
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post 14 Things that Cost the Same as a Gene Therapy Clinical Trial
Several of the families I write about say that it takes about $3-5 million to fund a phase 1 clinical trial for a…
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post CRISPR Clarifies Split-Hand/Foot
While James R. Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, calls genome editing a “national security threat”, bioethicists warn of CRISPR-created superbabies, and prominent researchers…
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post Help Young, Blind Musician Meet Bruce Springsteen!
Last March, my husband Larry and I attended the annual gala for the Curing Retinal Blindness Foundation, near Philadelphia. During the cocktail…
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post CF Rx: Exercise
We can’t change our genes – yet – but we can alter our environments to ease life with an inherited illness. Meet…
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post When a Bad Animal Model is Good: Cystic Fibrosis
A “good” animal model is one that has the same symptoms of a disease that we do, right? Not always. Sometimes we…
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post Can a Quirky Chromosome Create a Second Human Species?
In this age of genome sequencing, we can lose sight of the importance of how our genomes are distributed over 23 pairs…
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post Why Count Stools in the Human Microbiome?
Last week, a not-yet-accepted-for-publication paper challenged the long-held view that bacterial cells outnumber human cells in a body 10 to 1. As…
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post Hannah’s 2016: From Curling Toes to Gene Therapy
Eleven-year-old Hannah Sames can still curl her toes, just barely. But time is running out. If Hannah can move her toes for…