I didn’t cry until page 123 of Lisa Genova’s terrific new novel Inside the O’Briens. That’s when 44-year-old Boston police officer Joe…
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post Can We Cure Huntington’s Disease?
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post DNA Profiling of Cat Waste
“Bring in a stool sample,” says the vet. But that’s not so easy in a multi-cat household. I recently faced this problem…
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post Gene Therapy for Blindness Works!
The news this week presented at a major vision conference and published in The New England Journal of Medicine about gene therapy to…
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post AGTC Tackles 3 Eye Diseases with Gene Therapy
September will be 25 years since the first gene therapy experiment, and FDA approval is finally in sight. Several gene therapies are…
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post Adventures in Stem Cell Land
Two weeks ago a neurologist asked me to blog about a US-based company that is offering stem cell treatments, because it had…
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post Assessing Breast Cancer Risk: Beyond the Angelina Effect
On April 30 at 7:30 PM, I’ll be part of a panel on Health Link with Benita Zahn, WMHT TV, to discuss the…
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post Leroy Stevens: Fairwell to The Unsung Hero of Stem Cell Research
Yesterday a Google Alert popped up with a blast from my past, an obituary for Jackson Lab researcher Leroy C. Stevens. It quoted…
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post Autism Gene Discovery Recalls Alzheimer’s and BRCA1 Stories
Discovery of a new gene behind autism cleverly combines genetic techniques new and classic. Autism has been difficult to characterize genetically. It…
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post Universal Newborn Genome Sequencing and Generation Alpha
Imagine the day that genome sequencing of all newborns begins. Instantly two cohorts of people will form: the expanding youngest, with a…
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post CRISPR Meets iPS: Technologies Converge to Tackle Sickle Cell Disease
Researchers from Johns Hopkins University have teamed two powerful technologies to correct sickle cell disease. Linzhao Cheng and colleagues have deployed CRISPR/Cas-9…
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post The Man Who Ate 25 Eggs a Day
Each morning at the retirement community, the healthy 88-year-old man received a delivery of 25 soft-boiled eggs, which he would consume during…
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post Fighting Canavan: Honoring Rare Disease Week
During Rare Disease Week, I turn over DNA Science to a family battling a rare inherited disease. I’ve been following Max Randell, who…