Midsummer Updates at DNA Science

Summer is half over, so I thought I’d update a few posts. EMAN IN LIBERIA A year ago, I frantically wrote about my young friend in Liberia, Emmanuel Gokpolu, and his pleas to help stop Ebola. Emmanuel and his loved ones … Continue reading »

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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 has Canavan disease, in my human genetics textbook since he was a preschooler – he’s now 17, thanks … Continue reading »

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No Ice Buckets or Pink Ribbons for Very Rare Genetic Diseases

As enthusiasm for dumping ice on one another fades with autumn and October brings pervasive pink, I wish that attention would turn to families confronting diseases not as well known as ALS and breast cancer. HOW RARE IS RARE? According … Continue reading »

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Eliza’s Journey: Part 1

If ten science writers were asked to write a book about gene therapy, a biotechnology with roots going back to the 1950s, they could tell ten different stories.

VARIATIONS ON THE THEME
Any account of gene therapy would include the …

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