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Podcast recap: Danny Miller on making long-read sequencing the first test every patient receives

Most patients with a suspected genetic condition still move through testing one layer at a time. A panel checks a set of genes, a separate assay looks for a rep...
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Podcast recap: Brent Richards on how genetic evidence can de-risk drug targets

In the latest episode of The Genetics Podcast, Patrick Short sits down with Dr. Brent Richards, CEO and founder of 5 Prime Sciences and Professor of Human Genet...
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Podcast recap: Andrew Jackson on how the same DNMT3A mutations behind dwarfism drive an accelerated aging syndrome

In the latest episode of The Genetics Podcast, Patrick Short speaks with Dr. Andrew Jackson, Programme Leader at the MRC Human Genetics Unit within the Universi...
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Podcast recap: Stevie Ringel on building operational capacity for rare disease drug development

Rare and ultra-rare disease research has produced real scientific breakthroughs over the past decade: antisense oligonucleotides, gene therapies, and gene editi...
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Podcast recap: Jagesh Shah on why delivery is genetic medicine's real bottleneck

In genetic medicine, we increasingly know what to deliver. The unsolved problem is getting it to the right place in the body. That was the central thesis in the...
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Podcast recap: Carl Anderson on building the world's most detailed genetic map of inflammatory bowel disease

Most people with inflammatory bowel disease do not carry one broken gene. They carry risk spread across many genes and regulatory regions at once, which is why ...
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Podcast recap: Pradeep Natarajan on the blood mutations underlying cardiovascular risk

Most people accumulate cancer-associated blood mutations as they age, and quietly, without ever developing cancer. A growing body of evidence now links those mu...
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Podcast recap: Christopher Walsh on how somatic mosaicism rewrites the story of neurodegeneration

For decades, the dominant framework for understanding neurodegenerative disease has centered on inherited risk genes. A growing body of single-cell genomics res...
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Podcast recap: Yentli Soto Albrecht on turning a fatal diagnosis into a cure strategy

The C9orf72 hexanucleotide repeat expansion is the most common genetic cause of both ALS and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Carriers face roughly a 50% chance o...
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From discovery to dosing: Trace Neuroscience's UNC13A bet is now in the clinic

When Trace Neuroscience announced on June 22 that first patients had been dosed in the LAUNCH ALS trial, it felt like the right moment to revisit our original p...
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