Florie Charles has created another wonderful video at Youreka Science, this time helping us understand: What is going on with the parts of our DNA sometimes referred to as “dark matter”? Florie uses her clear, concise teaching style to talk about DNA and skin cancer. Her video is a particularly great tool for those of […]
Current Genetics Update: Mitochondrial DNA transfer (“three-parent” IVF) regu...
pgEd was delighted to have Hadley Stevens Smith as an intern this summer. Hadley’s guest post about mitochondrial DNA transfer for Current Genetics Update is below. Thank you Hadley for this detailed overview of the scientific and ethical issues! The UK government’s health department is drafting regulations that would cover an ethically controversial new in […]
Current Genetics Update: The Supreme Court, DNA collection and gene patents
In the past several weeks, the US Supreme Court has issued two major decisions that impact the field of personal genetics. First, the Court rules that human genes cannot be patented. The case involved the patents on the BRCA 1 and 2 genes, the very same genes in the news recently thanks to Angelina Jolie’s […]
Current Genetics Update: Beatrice Rienhoff, personal genomics pioneer, gets a...
In 2007, Dr. Hugh Rienhoff began a quest to understand the genetic basis of what was causing his daughter Beatrice’s unusual symptoms. Dr. Rienhoff analyzed her DNA with a sequencer he bought on eBay, working long nights at home to find what sort of changes Beatrice had in her DNA that were causing her symptoms, […]
Current Genetics Update: Youreka Science’s video – He’s Got...
Current Genetics Update is happy to host a guest post and video by Florie Charles, founder of Youreka Science! pgEd agrees on how important these concepts are, and love Florie’s fun, engaging style. Check it out! In an online video series, Florie Charles, a PhD graduate student at UCSF and the founder of Youreka Science, […]