The passion to find answers is inspiring. I had the good fortune to attend the KCNQ2 Cure Summit 2018. Meeting the patient families and seeing their passion to find answers, brings meaning and urgency to the work I have been doing to develop high-throughput drug screening platforms. What can we do to help these families? …
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The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once said: “You have evolved from worm to man, but much within you is still worm.” Genetic diversity in individuals and between species is responsible for bewildering variability and biological niche adaptation of life, yet much of the essential genes involved in disease presentation are highly conserved from yeast to humans. …
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Epilepsy Genetics 1 out of 100 persons is living with active epilepsy (Zack and Kobau 2017, WHO 2018). For the subset that can be pinned down to having a genetic cause, there are about 70 or so genes involved in causing the illness (Lindy 2018). Until recently, the frequency of a gene’s association with epilepsy …
