Tritigen - COST FA0604 Tritigen
tritigen.ari.gov.cyAction FA0604: Triticeace genomics for the advancement of essential European crops
Why predicting the phenotypic effect of mutations is hard
genomesunzipped.org“…the lack of predictability in genomic medicine is rather sobering. For certain genes and diseases, we can or will be able to make accurate and clinically useful predictions; but for many, we can’t and won’t.”
Caroline Wright lays out six reasons for the difficulties in genomic prediction. They’re all pretty obvious to me but the last reason may be a bit of a surprise.
Scientists Cure Diabetes With Gene Therapy In Dogs – Will It Work On Humans?
singularityhub.com
Scientists have now cured diabetes – at least in a group of dogs – and they used a gene therapy to do it. Amazingly, only a single therapy session was needed to return the dogs’ blood sugar levels to normal. It wasn’t the first time the researchers used the therapy to cure diabetes – they’d done the same previously in a group of mice. But the fact that the treatment worked in the larger canine is a promising sign that it might also one day work in those even much larger animals: humans.
