March 31, 2023
(STAT News) – Now, there’s evidence that ancestry correlates with key mutations that can shape the biology of certain tumors and how those tumors respond to treatments. Research published on Thursday in the JAMA Network Open found that Black patients … Read More
March 29, 2023
(Scientific American) – In a paper published today in Nature, researchers report refashioning Photorhabdus’s syringe—called a contractile injection system—so that it can attach to human cells and inject large proteins into them. The work could provide a way to deliver … Read More
March 29, 2023
European Journal of Human Genetics (vol. 30, no. 2, 2022) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “What is a ‘serious’ Genetic Condition? The Perceptions of People Living with Genetic Conditions” by Felicity K. Boardman and Corinna C. Clark … Read More
March 24, 2023
European Journal of Human Genetics (vol. 30, no. 1, 2022) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Confirmation of COL4A6 Variants in X-linked Nonsyndromic Hearing Loss and its Clinical Implications” by Alexander O’Brien, et al. “Genomic Analysis of Childhood … Read More
March 20, 2023
(New York Times) – The World Health Organization rebuked Chinese officials on Friday for withholding research that may link Covid’s origin to wild animals, asking why the data had not been made available three years ago and why it is … Read More
March 20, 2023
BMC Medical Ethics has new articles available online. Articles include: “Beyond Biopolitics: the Importance of the later Work of Foucault to Understand Care Practices of Healthcare Workers Caring for Undocumented Migrants” by Dirk Lafaut “Genetic/Genomic Testing: Defining the Parameters for … Read More
March 17, 2023
(Wired) – After several days of experts chewing on the scientific, ethical, and governance issues associated with human genome editing, the summit’s organizing committee put out its closing statement. Heritable human genome editing—editing embryos that are then implanted to establish a … Read More
March 17, 2023
(NPR) – Almost four years ago, Gray became one of the first patients with a genetic disorder — and the first patient with sickle cell disease — to get an experimental treatment that uses the revolutionary gene-editing technique known as … Read More
March 17, 2023
(New York Times) – An international team of virus experts said on Thursday that they had found genetic data from a market in Wuhan, China, linking the coronavirus with raccoon dogs for sale there, adding evidence to the case that … Read More
March 16, 2023
(Associated Press) – Doug Whitney inherited the same gene mutation that gave Alzheimer’s disease to his mother, brother and generations of other relatives by the unusually young age of 50. Yet he’s a healthy 73, his mind still sharp. Somehow, … Read More
