An inspiring article in Ars Technica describes the case of Kim Goodsell, an endurance athlete who discovered a novel genetic flaw linking her two rare diseases, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease and arrhythmogenic …
Category Archives: Biology
Gene Therapy: Becoming a Reality
From The Economist:
IT SOUNDS like science fiction, and for years it seemed as though it was just that: fiction. But the idea of gene therapy—introducing copies of healthy…
Genes in Space
In an effort to crowdsource some of the harder-to-automate bits of work involved in cancer research, Cancer Research UK has released a mobile game called Genes in Space for both …
Crispr Gene Editing
Read this fascinating New Scientist article on genetic engineering with CRISPR.
The article describes a new technique for genome editing that exploits a truly ancient immune mechanism found in …
Twin Crimes
Thanks to next-generation sequencing, a trusty (crusty?) old plot device is now much less credible. This BBC article describes how investigators are looking at the mutations between twins over the …