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Were Ancient Humans Healthier Than Us

WebA curious thing happened when researchers at Georgia Tech used modern human genome sequences to look back at the possible health of our long-ago ancestors …

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Why Do Healthy People Have Harmful Mutations

WebThat looks like a healthy person with a devastating mutation. A similar scenario is true for Alzheimer disease. Mutations in apoE4 increase risk, while mutations …

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Progress in Treating Genetic Disease: Dwarfism, Inborn Errors, …

WebIt’s been nearly a decade since my book The Forever Fix: Gene Therapy and the Boy Who Saved It, was published.The field hasn’t come as far as I’d hoped, with …

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Menkes Disease Treatment on the Horizon, After Nearly Three …

WebMenkes Disease Treatment on the Horizon, After Nearly Three Decades. Lucas DeFabio had Menkes disease (Daniel DeFabio) Headlines often trumpet the latest …

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Do Shrinking Chromosomes Put Older People at Higher Risk of …

WebThe more we age, the more we accumulate scars from previous illness and chronic conditions that put us at higher risk of severe illness.”. Yes, a 75-year-old with …

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Are Eurocentric Genetic Databases Hampering Health Care

WebA commentary published today in the journal Cell offers evidence of a stunning imbalance in the population groups that participate in genetic and genomic …

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Determining Disease Risks Based on Genetic Ancestry Can Counter …

WebWhen you choose to publish with PLOS, your research makes an impact. Make your work accessible to all, without restrictions, and accelerate scientific discovery …

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Need Help Interpreting Direct-To-Consumer DNA Test Results

WebThe new study considered serious DNA-based tests, such as pharmacogenomics results that might affect prescribing and specific disease risks, rather …

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Genetic Signature for Drug Addiction Revealed in New Analysis of …

WebDrug addiction is prevalent and deadly. In the US in 2021, more than 46 million people aged 12 or older had addiction to at least one substance, yet only 6.3% …

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Alzheimer’s Treatments in the Pipeline and the False Promise of

WebWhen you choose to publish with PLOS, your research makes an impact. Make your work accessible to all, without restrictions, and accelerate scientific discovery …

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Cats’ Genomes Make Them Good Models for Human Disease

WebOne study of the genomes of 54 unrelated cats revealed high genetic diversity, with each animal’s genome harboring about 10 million SNPs. A human genome …

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Is Recent Gene Therapy Setback for Duchenne Muscular …

WebIn the final chapter of my 2012 book The Forever Fix: Gene Therapy and the Boy Who Saved It, I predicted that the technology would soon expand well beyond the …

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The H5N8 Bird Flu and Why We Should Pay Attention

WebBefore COVID, reports of a new bird flu trickling or even sweeping out of Asia didn’t garner much attention. That’s certainly changed. So when two members of …

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Science Writing in the Age of COVID-19

WebScience Writing in the Age of COVID-19. March 18, 2021 Ricki Lewis, PhD Uncategorized. It’s been a strange and busy 15 months for science journalists. Each day, …

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How the Human Lost Its Tail

WebIn the apes, loss of the tail seems to come from two Alu repeats in the TBXT gene, oriented in opposite directions. To geneticists, reverse repeats conjure an image of …

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How Lume Whole Body Deodorant Was Inspired by a Genetic …

WebAmong the barrage of drug ads for cancer, diabetes, weight loss and more are those for Lume, a “doctor-developed whole body deodorant.” Lume (pronounced loom …

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The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese: A Geneticist’s Review

WebIn the new literary fiction masterpiece The Covenant of Water, author-physician Abraham Verghese traces an unusual trait through three generations of a …

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An Advocate for the Amish at a Very Special Clinic

WebLast Wednesday, I finally met Dr. D. Holmes Morton, a pediatrician who is quietly conquering genetic disease among the Amish and Mennonites – on their own turf, …

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