When the human genome was sequenced in the early 2000s, it promised a future of medicine tailored to your personal genetic makeup. Many millions of dollars have been spent researching genomic therapy, but it has saved a fraction of the lives of conventional – and [...]
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a primary myocardial disorder which can present at any age. Although the prevalence is estimated to be 1 in 500 in adults, it is far less common in young children. HCM is frequently caused by pathogenic variants in the sarcomere genes [...]
Genomics is an exciting field that lays the “book of life” open in front of us. It has great potential to improve our understanding of disease, sharpen our diagnostic capability, and provide targeted gene based therapies that could save lives. But with great potential comes [...]
