At the end of October, The Science Explorer attended some of the sessions at the American Society for Human Genetics annual meeting 2016. One of our favorite presentations was by Dr. Forbes D. Porter of the National Institutes of Health (NIH, US), who talked about a potential new treatment for the debilitating Niemann-Pick disease (NPC). He presented his…
Tag: genetics
New hope for triple negative breast cancer patients
Triple negative breast cancer is difficult to treat because it lacks the receptors that would allow it to respond to many of the drugs used for other forms of breast cancer. However, for the first time, a new drug candidate has been designed using genetic sequencing to specifically trigger tumour cells into killing themselves, leaving healthy cells…
Insects have feelings, too…
Throwing everything we thought we knew about insects into question, new research suggests that they are conscious, egocentric beings. Read about this new hypothesis here at The Canary.
Genetic superheroes walk among us…
But we don’t know who they are… See my story about these rare genetic heroes over at The Canary.
This organ transplant breakthrough is amazing but controversial…
What would you try to save a family member’s life? Could other species be the answer to organ donor shortages? Read up on this controversial medical breakthrough over here at The Canary.
GE animals vs. GE plants
Why aren’t GE animals making it to our plate? See my article about the opinion piece recently published in PNAS over at The Canary!
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