PLOS: DNA Science

MAY 18, 2023

Du Bois , I thought the book was a tribute to the famous Black historian, sociologist, scholar, and civil rights activist. Although excerpts of his writings open chapters, the book is sweeping historical fiction – perhaps the best I’ve ever read. The book has earned well-deserved accolades. The Love Songs of W.

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PLOS: DNA Science

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Treasure from 1952, Just Before Watson and Crick’s Paper A pile of old biology books to me is like a toy store to a child. I went to Shaun’s the next morning, flipped through a few books, and without hesitation loaded them all into the trunk of my car. Published by W.H. Beautiful black and white sketches adorn the pages.

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Codon

OCTOBER 27, 2024

The Most Deadly Infectious Disease “Each successive episode of bleeding left him weaker than before,” wrote Mary Doria Russell of Doc Holliday, the gunslinging gambler, in her eponymous book, Doc. Published in 1971, the book contains unsparing descriptions of Holliday’s deteriorating medical condition.

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PLOS: DNA Science

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In the final chapter of my 2012 book The Forever Fix: Gene Therapy and the Boy Who Saved It , I predicted that the technology would soon expand well beyond the rare disease world. Lumping gene and cell therapies together isn’t very helpful – the cell-based ones are mostly doctored T cells to treat cancer. million DNA bases.

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PLOS: DNA Science

MAY 4, 2023

Over time, the mineralized microbes of tooth tartar come to comprise a mouthful of tiny fossils, including snippets of degraded bacterial DNA. ” But long DNA molecules fray as they’re copied as bacteria reproduce, from ancient times leaving pieces too small to match entries in DNA databases from modern species.

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PLOS: DNA Science

JUNE 1, 2023

My now decade-old book The Forever Fix: Gene Therapy and the Boy who Saved It , told the stories of children who had received one-time deliveries of working copies of genes, to compensate for their mutations. This DNA Science post from 2018 traces the history of the efforts. RDEB is inherited from two carrier parents.

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Codon

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Recombinant DNA technologies were invented in the 1970s. Today we’re launching Asimov Press , a new publishing venture modeled on Stripe Press , that will produce a newsletter, magazine, and books that feature writing about biology. Book projects will launch in 2024. Newsletters and magazines will be free to read.

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