Progress in gene therapy: a promise that could come to pass?

We often write about the excesses and over-promising of human genetics, but here are two stories on something genetics seems to have gotten ...

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Evolutionary significance of color vision gene therapy

An aspect of the color blindness story that we didn't mention in our earlier post, but should have, is the evolutionary implication. L...

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Color blindness a disease?

Two color blind adult monkeys have been cured of their 'disease' with gene therapy, as described in an online Nature story. The st...

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The cystic fibrosis gene 20 years later

There's a Genetics "News Focus" piece in today's Science magazine called "The Promise of a Cure: 20 Years and Countin...

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