Ricki Lewis
Mendel meets Tinder: GenePeeks screen maps babies’ genetic risks — before conception
Genetic screening offers prospective parents new insights into the potential disease risks facing their offspring -- and maybe a chance ...
Have patients been forgotten in the quest to build private BRCA variant databases?
Databases on life-threatening genetic mutations -- including the BRCA variants linked to breast cancer -- are maintained by corporations for ...
‘Rape gene’? Law and Order SVU episode muddies genetic literacy waters
A popular television show delivers a questionable message on genetic determinism and the the issue of why some men resort ...
Diabetes: Origins and treatments undergoing revolutionary rethink?
New research suggests that type 1 diabetes might not be directly autoimmune in origin, and that tracking blood glucose might not ...
Privacy perils: Impact of legislation that would strip genetic secrecy protections in US
Employers could force workers to divulge private genetic information under Republican-sponsored legislation making its way through Congress. It could have ...
Casting a wider net: Expanded carrier screening recommended for cystic fibrosis, other genetic diseases
All prospective parents should have carrier screening for a range of genetic disorders, according to new recommendations by the American ...
Is transgender identity linked to genetics?
Sex is set, or “determined,” when an X chromosome from an egg finds itself in a nucleus with an X ...
Quest for a cure: Gene therapy offers hope for children with rare form of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
A couple strives to help their daughter, who was born with a rare form of Charcot-Marie-Tooth, a muscle-wasting disease that ...
Weird world of DNA: What’s the best way to help patients with genetic diseases that are not inherited?
The stories of two children, Millie and Hannah, highlight ways that genetic disease can seem to veer from the predictions ...
Gaucher, Parkinson diseases both originate from mutations on same gene
Gaucher (pronounced “go-shay”) disease affects 1 in 450 Jewish people of Ashkenazi (eastern European) descent (1 in 10 is a ...
DNA sequencing of pap smears non-invasive alternative to prenatal genetic screening
Targeted DNA sequencing of fetal cells from Papanicolaou (Pap) smears may offer an improved and earlier route to prenatal genetic ...
Three gene editing techniques available for treating sickle cell disease
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a perfect candidate for gene editing...Correcting the mutation behind SCD is an obvious strategy. How ...
Clinton and Trump need to talk about issues in genetics, precision medicine more
An organization...has crowdsourced and expert-checked a list of “20 science-driven issues (that) deserve their own debate” for the presidential candidates ...
How one rare disease led to painting of blue people
Most stories about the blue people of Kentucky include an eerie, compelling drawing of a family, with the stark faces ...
Gene therapy improves vision in Canavan disease patient even after 15 years
The first thing that Max Randell’s parents noticed after gene therapy for Canavan disease in 1998, when he was nearing ...
Latest gene therapy trials herald good news as drug developments escalate
It’s much too soon to tell whether the gene therapy that 12-year-old Hannah Sames had last month for GAN is having ...
After 8 years and $8 million, gene therapy begins for 12-year-old with rare neurological disorder
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [July 21, 2016], 8 ...
Scientists believe drug response connected to ancestry, not race
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Each year in the ...
Gene therapy may give way to new type I diabetes treatment
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Despite eclectic ways of ...
Claims that sugar alters hundreds of ‘brain genes’ don’t hold up to scrutiny, science
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. How Kevin Spacey is ...
Personal genomic testing presents challenges for doctors and patients
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Marketing of direct-to-consumer (DTC) ...
Chromosomal abnormality could theoretically create new human species
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In this age of ...
Hannah’s year: Gene transfer treatment gives hope to curing rare neurodegenerative disease
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Eleven-year-old Hannah Sames can ...
Evolution of grandparents may explain genes that protect against dementia
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. “Survival of the fittest” ...
Gene therapy, not editing, saved baby Layla
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. I had planned to ...
Gene therapy offers hope for spinal muscular atrophy cure
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. I began writing about ...
Precision medicine goes far beyond genetics
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When President Obama uttered ...
Should genetic counselors dissuade termination of pregnancies with Down syndrome risk?
Several people have sent me a perspective piece by bioethicist Art Caplan in PLOS Biology, “Chloe’s Law: A Powerful Legislative Movement ...
