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Podcast: Mapping Humanity—How modern genetics is changing criminal justice, personalized medicine, and our identities

Cameron English, Josh Rappoport | 
Innovations in genetics are already changing our lives for the better, and will continue to do so. Using gene-editing technology, ...
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Population health vs personalized medicine? Coronavirus pandemic highlights the importance of multiple approaches

Amy Dockser Marcus | 
“If we are to advance health care in the United States, where is the dollar best spent? Is it spent ...
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Aging is ‘truly personal’: You could have the immune system of a teenager and the metabolism of a 50-year-old

Sharon Begley | 
One 50-year-old has the nimble metabolism of a teenager, while another’s is so creaky he developed type 2 diabetes — ...
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Personalizing pancreatic cancer treatment by growing, treating tumors in a dish

Karen Weintraub | 
Only about 15% of advanced pancreatic patients are alive two years after their diagnosis. Margaret Schwarzhans has now made it ...
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DNA, fruit flies and the quest to treat cancer with precision medicine

David Warmflash, Tim Barker | 
"Cancer therapy is becoming customized to each patient." ...
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Viewpoint: AI promises to revolutionize personalized medicine. Now we need ‘clinical validation’.

Eric Topol | 
Machines can now be trained to see things humans cannot, and likely never will.  ... From obviating the need to ...
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Viewpoint: Trump’s proposed drug price cap would threaten gene therapies, cell-based therapies by stifling innovation

Edward Abrahams | 
President Trump has said he plans to issue an executive order to lower what the United States government would pay ...
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Your own fruit fly ‘avatars’ could boost precision medicine treatments

Sally Robertson | 
Personalized cancer medicine involves looking at an individual’s genome and cancer growth to help find more effective ways of screening ...
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Taking cancers apart ‘piece-by-piece’ in search for vulnerabilities that could be attacked with precision medicine

James Gallagher | 
Scientists have taken cancer apart piece-by-piece to reveal its weaknesses, and come up with new ideas for treatment. A team ...
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Better understanding of how genes work together could be key to personalized medicine

James Ives | 
Tens of thousands of people have had their genomes sequenced yet it remains a major challenge to infer future health ...
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Viewpoint: Precision medicine plagued by an ’embarrassing’ human reference genome

Sharon Begley | 
The human reference genome, largely completed in 2001, has achieved near-mythic status. It is “the book of life,” the “operating ...
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Viewpoint: The problem with personalized medicine is that ‘statistics are being misinterpreted’

Stephen Senn | 
Personalized medicine aims to match individuals with the therapy that is best suited to them and their condition. Advocates proclaim ...
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How AI can make gene editing ‘more accurate, cheaper and easier’

Bernard Marr | 
One of the most exciting prospects about gene technology is the development of precision or personalized medicine. The field, which ...
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Breast cancer is not ‘one size fits all’: Obesity, alcohol use, inactivity exacerbate risk

Laura Landro | 
A regular mammogram isn’t enough to battle breast cancer anymore. Researchers have found that a third of breast cancer cases ...
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Why the promise of personalized medicine could fall short for minorities

Daniel Weinberger | 
African-Americans are underrepresented in large-scale genetic and neuroscience studies ...
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Questions about wisdom of early mammograms raise stakes for genetic profiling

Meredith Knight | 
Conflicting screening recommendations are sure to confuse women — which raises the importance of factoring in genetic factors in risk ...
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Is crowdsourcing key to finding cures for genetic-based diseases like depression?

Meredith Knight | 
Fifteen gene loci are linked to depression using 23andMe user data in the most comprehensive study of the disease yet ...
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‘Bad genes’ may not mean you’ll get a disease

Andrew Porterfield | 
Today, personalized medicine hinges on genetic information on risks of disease. Unfortunately, having a disease-associated mutation may bear little to ...
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Precision medicine’s cost challenges: Are there lower tech alternatives?

Meredith Knight | 
Precision medicine is leading to cures but at high cost to healthcare systems. But there are emerging examples of lower-tech ...
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Designer viruses and precision medicine: New findings for the future of gene therapies

Ben Locwin | 
Precision and personalized medicine have at their heart the promise of targeting diseases with specialized therapies specific to certain types ...
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