A single typo in my genome that causes fatal genetic prion disease
Sonia Vallabh We all carry around thousands of typos in our DNA, most of which don’t matter much to our health — but my typo is an unusually clear-cut case. It’s a single change in a particular gene that causes fatal genetic prion disease, where patients can live 50 healthy years, but then suddenly fall… Read More A single typo in my genome that causes fatal genetic prion disease