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- November 6, 2009
- 07:20 AM
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Gene therapy can work!
by Heather Etchevers in A Developing Passion
I am basking in the reflected glory of working at an institution that has more or less successfully applied gene therapy to alleviate the suffering of children with incurable genetic diseases. And they’re fighting the good fight, because sometimes, they win. Here, I discuss how they did it, and why.... Read more »
Cartier, N., Hacein-Bey-Abina, S., Bartholomae, C., Veres, G., Schmidt, M., Kutschera, I., Vidaud, M., Abel, U., Dal-Cortivo, L., Caccavelli, L.... (2009) Hematopoietic Stem Cell Gene Therapy with a Lentiviral Vector in X-Linked Adrenoleukodystrophy. Science, 326(5954), 818-823. DOI: 10.1126/science.1171242
- May 22, 2009
- 05:19 AM
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Genealogical links from early primates to Moors to you
by Heather Etchevers in A Developing Passion
Brian Clegg brought up an interesting and somewhat confounding point in Henry Gee’s recent post on Missing Links.
Let’s say one does want to take an anthropocentric point of view, and trace a representative human genealogy over time.
Let’s say that one is not particularly interested in the fact that we are cousins with a particular species of coral reef alga. Just like the fact that we are all related here on Nature Network. These family ties are not relevant to how we intera........ Read more »
Capelli, C., Onofri, V., Brisighelli, F., Boschi, I., Scarnicci, F., Masullo, M., Ferri, G., Tofanelli, S., Tagliabracci, A., Gusmao, L.... (2009) Moors and Saracens in Europe: estimating the medieval North African male legacy in southern Europe. European Journal of Human Genetics, 17(6), 848-852. DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2008.258
- December 1, 2008
- 05:16 AM
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Realize your potential!
by Heather Etchevers in A Developing Passion
Be all you can be!
This morning brought notification of yet another delightful editorial by Gerald Weissmann in the FASEB Journal (which I don’t otherwise read much), entitled, Fashions in Science: From Philosophers’ Camp to Epigenetics.1
The idea that there are fashions in science is nothing new whatsoever. Who among us has not lamented the fact that one’s subject of predilection is not the easy sell and draw for money and personnel that we might have believed anything ̶........ Read more »
Gerald Weissmann. (2008) Fashions in Science: From Philosophers’ Camp to Epigenetics. FASEB J, 4033-4037. DOI: http://www.fasebj.org/cgi/content/full/22/12/4033
Jonathan M. W. Slack. (2002) Timeline: Conrad Hal Waddington: the last Renaissance biologist?. Nature Reviews Genetics, 3(11), 889-895. DOI: 10.1038/nrg933
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