F.D.A. Approves 2 Sickle Cell Treatments, One Using CRISPR Gene Editing
People with the genetic disease have new opportunities to eliminate their symptoms, but the treatments come with obstacles that limit their reach. NYT > Health
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Gene variants increase risk of kidney failure in Black veterans with COVID-19: study
by Leigh MacMillan Gene variants increased the risk of acute kidney injury and death in veterans of African ancestry who were hospitalized with COVID-19, according to a new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.…
Grant from Google to support COVID gene expression study
by Bill Snyder Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill have been awarded $ 500,000 by Google’s philanthropy, Google.org, to study how COVID-19 alters gene expression in…
Gene Lester Jarrett
Gene Lester Jarrett was born in the Thomas Jarrett farmhouse to Eady May (McCoy) and John Dunham Jarrett near Mooresville, IN on December 11, 1928. After his birth, the family returned to their home in…