Jocelyn Kaiser
400 children worldwide are born each year with ‘fast-aging disease’ – Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome. Now CRISPR offers hope
[R]esults from a new study have inspired hope for treating children born with progeria, a rare, fatal, genetic disease that ...
Scouring coronavirus patient genes to answer a question: Why do some people get deathly sick, when others don’t?
COVID-19, caused by the new pandemic coronavirus, is strangely—and tragically—selective. Only some infected people get sick, and although most of ...
Can we engineer soldiers to be immune to chemical attacks?
Despite international bans, some countries, such as Syria, use deadly nerve agents against enemy soldiers and civilians. Existing treatments for these ...
Virus used to deliver gene therapy treatments may increase liver cancer risk, study suggests
Just as gene therapy finally seems to be living up to its promise, a study has revived a lingering worry ...
Using CRISPR to improve accuracy of cancer-fighting drugs
Cancer drug developers may be missing their molecular targets—and never knowing it. Many recent drugs take aim at specific cell ...
Are we moving closer to detecting cancer through blood tests?
The elusive dream is that a simple blood test could detect a small tumor growing in your body, giving doctors ...
Personalized skin cancer vaccine shows promise
For half a century, researchers have dreamed of giving cancer patients a vaccine that helps the immune system detect the ...
When will CRISPR be safe enough to translate to therapy?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Researchers have published successes ...
What does Obama’s precision medicine initiative mean for future medical research?
The precision medicine initiative proposed by President Barack Obama last week would center on a huge new biobank containing medical ...
Rare genetic variant reduces heart disease risk from dietary fat
We all know people who seem to have been born with good genes—they may smoke, never exercise, or consume large ...
Iceland denies DNA data mining of country’s genealogical records
The following is an excerpt. deCODE Genetics, the company known for mining the DNA of Iceland's population to find links ...
Q&A: David Altshuler on how to share millions of human genomes
The following is an edited excerpt. To fully understand the role of human genetic variation and its role in disease, ...
Long-running stem cell lobbying group ending
The following is an edited excerpt. In a sign of how much the controversy over human embryonic stem cells has ...
Telomeres linked to death risk in data from largest U.S. “biobank”
Researchers who have assembled a trove of genetic and medical data on 100,000 northern Californians unveiled their initial findings here ...
