Victoria Gray was diagnosed with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) at 3-months of age and has dealt with the condition her whole life. In hopes it would improve her day-to-day life, she chose to be the first patient in a clinical trial using CRISPR to treat SCD. Read the...
Laura Marotta was just trying to treat her son’s asthma. Instead, the asthma medication led to extreme adverse side effects, including depression, anxiety, and hallucinations. My Gene Counsel’s President and CEO, Ellen Matloff, had the opportunity to talk...
On Friday evening, December 18, 2020, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Moderna’s mRNA COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, joining Pfizer’s previously approved vaccine in the fight against COVID-19. In previous articles, I...
On Friday, December 12, 2020, the United States Food and Drug Administration issued its first Emergency Use Authorization for a COVID-19 vaccine. The FDA’s approval of this vaccine, developed by Pfizer, followed recent approvals of the same vaccine by the UK,...
Since its launch in 2013, ClinVar has not only amassed a wealth of genetic variant information, but the lab and clinical genetics community in the US are readily referencing it when they have questions about the clinical significance of variants. A few healthcare...
