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For the parents of a newborn, the world is often a blur of joy, anxiety, and sleepless nights. Every small milestone is a celebration, every cry a puzzle to be solved. But for some, this already challenging journey takes an unimaginable turn. Imagine being told your seven month old child has a condition so rare it affects only one in a million births, a silent genetic error that turns the very…

Recommended recent stem cell, cancer, & CRISPR reads

What’s on your weekend reads list including stem cell papers?

In addition to hard-core research papers, I find some bigger picture publications to be helpful too. Then there are just fun items.

Every so often I do a post about things that I’m hoping to find time to read over the weekend or that I’ve recently read. Today’s post is one of those items and here are some interesting science reads…

Why Mitalipov’s ‘magic’ room for human embryo CRISPR may give us pause

Shoukhrat Mitalipov points to an image of a potential CRISPR’d embryo inside an incubator at the Center for Embryonic Cell and Gene Therapy in Portland, Ore. Photo credit: Rob Stein on NPR.org, re-used with permission.

The debate over whether the main conclusions of the Nature paper on human embryo CRISPR led by Shoukhrat Mitalipov’s lab at OHSU are correct remains unresolved. Note that Naturejus…

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