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Black Mirror: Good TV, bad policy?

August 24, 2018 Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, CRISPR, gene editing, Netflix

I love Black Mirror in the way I love long-distance running: I’m not sure why I’m doing it, the experience is usually painful, but when

From The Labs

From the labs to commercialization: Companies merge to implement Baylor College of Medicine-developed therapies for cancer

August 16, 2018 cancer therapy, commercialization, Marker Therapeutics, Research, T cells, TapImmune, tumor cells

Despite major advances in cancer therapy, conventional cancer treatments continue to be associated with devastating side effects for patients and are not always curative. In

Policywise

Does ECMO life support require a different approach?

August 10, 2018 Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Dr. Andrew Childress, End of Life, Ethical Concerns, Life Support, Medical Treatment

The decision to place a loved one on life support is not easy. In fact, the term itself “life support” can mean many different things

From The Labs

A simpler, faster CRISPR

August 9, 2018 bacterial genetics, CRISPR, gene editing, Research

CRISPR technologies can be programmed to target specific sequences of genetic code and to edit DNA at precise locations. This strategy allows research scientists to

From The Labs

Sorting out what drives Huntington’s disease

July 12, 2018 fruit fly, high-throughput, huntingtin, Huntington’s disease, neurological disease, Research

Neurological diseases are typically associated with a multitude of molecular changes. But out of thousands of changes in gene expression, which ones are actually driving

Policywise

Medical humanities and the search for meaning

July 11, 2018 Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Dr. Andrew Childress, Medical Education, Narrative Medicine

I must admit that I’m surprised when I hear third-year medical students say they would like to have taken some humanities courses in the first

Policywise

Life after the death of my child

July 6, 2018 clinical ethics, family, Grief, Jill Oliver Robinson

Before my eight-month-old daughter, Abby, died unexpectedly, I thought I knew plenty about grief. The pervasively popular five stages of grief model, developed by Dr.

From The Labs

The Hippo pathway: tailor of the developing heart

July 5, 2018 blood vessels, heart development, heart growth, Hippo pathway, Research, single cell transcriptomics

The Hippo pathway is an inhibitor of adult heart regeneration; if you take the Hippo pathway away, then the heart can regenerate. But, can the

Policywise

When DNA ancestry tests reveal something surprising

June 29, 2018 Ancestry, DNA, genetic testing, Stacey Pereira

“Hey, we’re half French,” was the text from my brother a couple of months ago, accompanying a screenshot of his Ancestry.com results. I found this

From The Labs

Absence epilepsy – when the brain is like ‘an orchestra without a conductor’

June 19, 2018 2-photon microscopy, absence epilepsy, childhood epilepsy, Research, seizures

At first, the teacher described her six-year-old student as absentminded, a daydreamer. The boy was having difficulty paying attention in class. As the teacher watched