For some parents, a physician’s advice to “just take him home and love him,” presumably letting nature take it’s most likely course, is just not acceptable. This blog has championed many such parents, who serve

I’ve become a stalker. When I recently stopped at an intersection behind a car with bumper stickers “Make Abortion Criminal Again” and “Worship GOD, not GOV,” I followed the offensive vehicle into the parking lot

On May 21, Abeona Therapeutics announced the go-ahead from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a clinical trial to test a gene therapy for a form of Batten disease called CLN1 disease, aka infantile

Burger King is going to sell the Impossible Burger and McDonald’s is soon to follow with its own meatless patty. So I thought I’d check out the brilliantly-branded burger, both in the patent and on my plate.

Fleshing out the details of ancient humanity has typically begun with fossil finds and then, years later, sequencing genes and genomes. That was the case for Neanderthals, but now the reverse has happened for the

“Not parent expected” – NPE – is a surprise that thousands of us have gotten as a result of consumer ancestry DNA testing. We discover that we are the offspring of a sperm donor, or

Ultrarare genetic diseases often appear with a series of symptoms that might seem unconnected. Brooke Harrison Ramirez’s pregnancy had been easy eight years ago, but baby Trinity’s troubles began right away: GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease)

I’ll admit that I have long admired the beauty of the large milkweed bug Oncopeltus fasciatus, without knowing anything about it. So I was pleased to read of the recent publication of its genome sequence,