Terkko Navigator / DNA Science Blog (PLoS)

Huntington’s Disease: 2 Steps Backward, 1 Step Forward

Alzheimer’s Treatments in the Pipeline and the False Promise of Prevagen: Distinguishing Hope from Hype

Science Writing in the Age of COVID-19

On the Anniversary of the Pandemic, Considering the Bioweapon Hypothesis

Is COVID Optimism Finally Overtaking Pessimism? Harvard Experts Weigh In

Rare Disease Day 2021: Gene Therapy Ups and Downs, Again

DNA Study Adds Branch to North American Mammoth Family Tree

How My“Fruit Fly Love Story” Presaged The Rise of COVID-19 Viral Variants

Getting a COVID Vaccine is More Transparent Than Eating a Hot Dog: Countering Vaccine Hesitancy

Are We Hurtling or Hurdling Towards Herd Immunity for COVID-19?

Mutants Come to Saratoga: COVID New Variants Explained

What Do Non-identical Identical Twins Have to do with COVID-19? Mutation!

Ignoring Pandemic Warnings and Links to my 54 COVID Articles

The First COVID-19 Vaccines: What’s mRNA Got To Do With It?

Why Do Males Fare Worse With COVID-19? A Clue From Calico Cats

Dr. Paul Offit Talks COVID Vaccines, With JAMA’S Howard Bauchner

Worse Than COVID? The Tasmanian Devil’s Contagious Cancer

Thinking About Thanksgiving? A Reminder of What COVID-19 Can Do To A Human Body

Genetic Clues in the Goop of a COVID Swab

Can Some Antibodies Worsen COVID-19? The Odd Situation of Enhancement

A Drug Trio for COVID-19: Precedents in Cystic Fibrosis, HIV/AIDS, and Hepatitis C

A Conversation with CRISPR-Cas9 Inventors Charpentier and Doudna

Long-Awaited Drug for Alkaptonuria (AKU), the First“Inborn Error,” On the Way to Approval in Europe

5 COVID-19 Updates: Cats, Kids, Seniors, Blood, and an Old Vaccine

A Cloned Przewalski’s Horse Evokes Memories of the Catskill Game Farm

How the Various COVID Vaccines Work

Extinction of the Woolly Rhino: Ancient Genomes Point to Climate Change, not Overhunting

Progress and a Setback in Treating Rare Genetic Diseases: Hemophilia A, CLN1, SMA, and DMD

Vaccine Memories: From Polio to Autism