The odyssey of patients in the absence of a genetics specialty
The diagnosis of diseases of genetic origin is delayed between 6 and 7 years due to lack of specialists Professionals ...
Tag: genetics
Gene therapy achieves benefits in rare pediatric disease
Gene therapy has emerged as one of the greatest hopes for the treatment of rare diseases, including cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy (CALD). ...
How does jet lag affect our health? A collection of biological samples from flight attendants may help find out
The clock strikes 10:37 as we enter the garden of the National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO). The sun filters through ...
Noelia Ferruz, the chemist who will create an artificial intelligence with a “supernatural” power
In 1970, British biologist John Maynard Smith came up with a simple wordplay that describes one of the most complex ...
When the stork comes from the laboratory: anatomy of the science that gave birth to the first ‘test tube babies’
Victoria Anna Perea entered the history of Spanish medicine from the moment she was born. On July 12, 40 years ...
April, the first girl treated with gene therapy to cure deafness
A few months after the birth of their second daughter, whom they named Abril, Daniel and María Montaña decided to ...
The largest genome on the planet is found in a small fern
The tree of life has these things. A fern, which may seem like a not too complex organism, turns out ...
Genetic cause of the most common brain malformation found
After almost a decade of work and an almost detective search for cases around the world, an international consortium of ...
The first patient who received a genetically modified pig kidney discharged
Rick Slayman, the first living recipient of a genetically modified pig kidney transplant, was discharged from Massachusetts General Hospital today, ...
A trial tests the technology of covid vaccines against a rare disease
Jude Samulski, one of the fathers of gene therapies, argues that rare diseases should be treated for free. “With what ...
