Ledford: Dolly’s Legacy

Ledford: Dolly’s Legacy

Heidi Ledford (@heidiledford) recently explained the legacy of Dolly the cloned sheep for Nature. Although CRISPR is now the technique of choice for genome editing, researchers still use somatic cell nuclear transfer to clone animals. In this technique, scientists...
Stiffler: Disrupting Drug Development

Stiffler: Disrupting Drug Development

For Geekwire’s Health Tech podcast, Lisa Stiffler (@lisa_stiffler) talks to Sanath Kumar Ramesh, whose son Raghav was born with an ultra-rare genetic disorder. As a software engineer, Ramesh is oriented toward problem-solving. So when Raghav’s doctors told the family...

Naam: Election Science

In time for election day, Ramez Naam lays out the science of Washington State ballot initiative I-522, to require front-of-package labeling of any foods containing genetically modified ingredients. In a single Slogpost, Ramez names the AMA, National Academy of...