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Patient-Centric Rare Disease Genome Maps Join The Web

For far too long, rare disease patients and their guardians have had to wait “forever” for genetic information to be returned back to them.  All of that is about to change: thanks to the convergence of mapping...read more

Enabling Precision Medicine: Life (Sciences) in 2030

Just 20 years ago, some expected the human genome to hold all the answers. Instead, we accumulated an almost unlimited backlog of new questions – a direct consequence of the ever-growing interest in unlocking the...read more

Scientific Integrity: A Coincidental Encounter

I recently interviewed the Dutch scientist, Dr. Elisabeth Bik, a microbiome and science integrity consultant. After years of working as a research associate at Stanford University and as the scientific editorial...read more

A Review of SARS-CoV-2 Variants

In an ideal situation the COVID-19 pandemic would be brought under control by vaccine-induced immune responses in most individuals. The reality that might be achieved is a combination of vaccine-induced and some natural...read more

COVID-19 – Viral Vector Versus mRNA Vaccines

In January this year, we published a blog that covered the development of the first two COVID-19 vaccines that were given emergency use authorization (EUA) (The Promise and Hope of RNA-based vaccines for COVID-19), and...read more

The Promise and Hope of RNA-based vaccines for COVID-19

The worldwide devastation wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic is well known to everyone, as is the resulting push to develop effective vaccines and therapies that have been proceeding on a massive scale and at rapid pace...read more

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