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Nixing the Newborn Screening Advisory Committee Is Ill-Advised

PLOS: DNA Science

Kefalas tells her story in her compelling book Harnessing Grief: A Mother’s Quest for Meaning and Miracles. And my graduate student in bioethics wrote a compelling history of the first newborn screen for an “inborn error of metabolism,” phenylketonuria (PKU).

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How Targeted Cancer Drugs Disrupt the Cell Cycle

PLOS: DNA Science

A “DNA damage checkpoint” rests the cell cycle while special proteins repair damaged DNA. I had the privilege to meet one of the first people to receive Gleevec, which I wrote about for Bioethics Today in 2006. She chronicled her journey in Glamour and in My So-Called Normal Life, a book published in 2005.

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The Codon Guide to Synthetic Biology

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Technologies DNA Sequencing →DNA sequencing at 40: past, present and future , by Shendure J. Link DNA Cost and Productivity Data, aka "Carlson Curves" , by Carlson R. Link Next-Generation DNA Sequencing Methods , by Mardis E.R. Link DNA synthesis technologies to close the gene writing gap , by Hoose et al.

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The Codon Guide to Synthetic Biology

Codon

Technologies DNA Sequencing →DNA sequencing at 40: past, present and future , by Shendure J. Link DNA Cost and Productivity Data, aka "Carlson Curves" , by Carlson R. Link Next-Generation DNA Sequencing Methods , by Mardis E.R. Link DNA synthesis technologies to close the gene writing gap , by Hoose et al.

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