Eric Boodman
Articles written for the GLP list the source as Genes and Science. All other articles were written for the sources noted with excerpts provided by the GLP.
Campaign in France to loosen ban on direct-to-consumer DNA testing gains traction
The French ban on direct-to-consumer genetic testing is part of the country’s bioethics laws, which legislators are supposed to revise every ...
Viewpoint: US government’s clinical trial registry plagued by ‘bogus’ patient-funded stem-cell trials
When a judge ruled [June 3] that the FDA could stop the work of U.S. Stem Cell, the firm’s trials ...
Explaining CRISPR gene editing to beginners is no easy task
[MIT grad student Avery] Normandin was surrounded by an entirely different kind of laypeople. These folks — or at least ...
Searching for ALS genes in Appalachian Mountain family trees
With patient visits along the way, [Dr. Edward Kasarskis and Debby Taylor would] be tracing, in reverse, the path of ...
Mixing psychiatry and neurology: This doctor treats patients other doctors have given up on
[Neuroscientist Alice Flaherty] has been toying with the boundaries of illness itself. She likes seeing patients other doctors have given ...
First Luxterna results: Does the $850,000 gene therapy work?
About eight weeks earlier, [Jack Hogan had] been the first person to get an $850,000 therapy called Luxturna since it had hit the market ...
Paying for pricey gene therapy without insurance: Amish community faces challenge
[A]t $850,000 a person, Luxturna was more budget-busting than just about any other drug. [Company] Spark had proposed a few different ways of helping ...
Highly anticipated Luxturna gene therapy for blindness costs $850,000
The trouble had started over a decade ago, when the Hogans noticed something wasn’t right with their son Jack...When they ...
White supremacists flock to genetic tests to confirm their ‘purity’—but most find they have mixed racial ancestries
With the rise of spit-in-a-cup genetic testing, there’s a trend of white nationalists using these services to prove their racial ...
Children of older dads at higher risk for psychiatric disorders: Is mutated sperm to blame?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Ever since it was ...
Silkworms may be key to improving blood preservation, medical testing
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The boxes arrive from ...
Gene therapy gives new hope to curing ‘bubble boy’ disease
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. David Vetter, the famous ...
First ever artificially engineered vocal cords grown in lab
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. For vocal cords, producing ...
