A family whose daughter has Canavan Disease initiated the world’s first gene therapy trial for genetic brain diseases — and saved her life.
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Historians and scientists are closer than ever to learning where the Jewish people originated, and where we ended up.
Sometimes you have to coax the saliva out. “Think of pickles,” one volunteer instructed.
Adopting science in order to define who is a Jew and who is not is part and parcel of a rightward turn Israel has fostered under Benjamin Netanyahu.
The study indicates that converso genes have spread far and wide in Latin America.
Hey, why not just trade a screenshot of your social security card for a recommendation of what Starbucks drink to order?
“Think of it this way, Paul. The foreskin is only one percent of the penis. And we know how much you love cuts for the one percent.”
What difference would it make if you find out that you were 1% Viking?
“Make sure to take care of yourself,” he said, “Because you’re the only person in the world who looks like me.”