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Podcast recap: Vincent Dion on hijacking DNA repair machinery to treat Huntington's disease

More than three decades after the Huntington's disease gene was cloned in 1993, there is still no approved therapy that alters the course of the disease. Recent...
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Podcast recap: Paul Valdmanis on long-read sequencing and the genetics of neurodegeneration

In the most recent episode of The Genetics Podcast, host Patrick Short speaks with Dr. Paul Valdmanis, Associate Professor at the University of Washington, abou...
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What four episodes of The Genetics Podcast reveal about the future of Alzheimer’s precision medicine

Alzheimer’s research is entering a new phase. For decades, the field has been shaped by the biology of amyloid plaques and tau tangles. Those remain central to ...
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Podcast recap: Sarah Marzi on how genetics, environment, and cell state shape neurodegenerative disease

In the most recent episode of The Genetics Podcast, Patrick Short speaks with Dr. Sarah Marzi, Senior Lecturer at King’s College London and Group Leader at the ...
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Podcast recap: Suzanne Schindler on Alzheimer’s biomarkers

On the latest episode of The Genetics Podcast, Patrick Short speaks with Dr. Suzanne Schindler associate professor of neurology at Washington University in St. ...
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The rare disease blueprint: What precision medicine can learn from the hardest trials

Rare disease exposes the limits of current clinical development models. Small, fragmented populations make patient identification difficult. Heterogeneous biolo...
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Podcast recap: Derek Ansel on decision-making under uncertainty in rare disease clinical trials

Rare disease drug development involves decision-making under extreme uncertainty. Teams are asked to design trials without well-established endpoints, in small ...
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Podcast recap: Tim Jobson on earlier liver disease detection and the LiveWell study

Liver disease remains one of the few major disease areas where outcomes have not improved in line with other fields such as cardiovascular disease and cancer. I...
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Podcast recap: Andrea Ganna on applying polygenic scores and EHRs in healthcare

On the latest episode of The Genetics Podcast, Patrick welcomed Dr. Andrea Ganna, an Associate Professor at the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM),...
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Connecting patients to rare disease trials through scalable genetic testing infrastructure

At Seqera Sessions London 2026, Dr. Katie Barnes, Head of Clinical Genetics at Sano Genetics, outlined a practical challenge facing the field: how to move from ...
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