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Alzheimer’s Disease is an asteroid headed directly at Earth. An astonishing 1 in 4 Americans are expected to develop this devastating...
Dr. Knowlittle
This one comes out of the past, but it is about a fear as old as time . . . or at least as old as Merck, namely that testing in animals...
Grand stranding
Dr. He Jiankui dragged everyone into a brave new world when he edited human embryo genomes to be resistant to HIV and those embryos were...
Purposeful repurposing
Drug repurposing is seen to be a major growth area in the drug development field because it trades the unsolved problem of attrition for...
Could GeneCentrix's Historeceptomics Profiler have saved millions for Roche and PTC Therapeutics
Roche and PTC’s Spinal Muscular Atrophy clinical drug trials were waylaid by an unexpected tissue specific effect. After the trial had...
Finally getting a handle on rare variations
Rare variations in genomic data have long been the bugaboo of computational biologists, those soldiers at the forefront of personalized...