Saeed Reza Ghaffari MSc MD PhD

Crossroads:

🛣A #crossroads moment begins with the realization that you have no particular place to go

🛣It represents the #end of a journey, along with the mourning that accompanies loss

🛣And the start of a new journey, with all its frightening uncertainty and tentative hope

Relatives do not act quickly on #genetictesting even after learning about a family member’s pathogenic cancer variant https://go.nature.com/2TtF1ZM @EMBOSU #hereditarycancer #genetics #geneticcounseling #healthbehavior #GCChat

For more than half a century, scientists have known the cause of sickle cell disease, a single mutation in a gene. Millions of people are affected globally, a vast majority of them Africans. Has gene therapy finally arrived? @ginakolata in @nytimes https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/11/health/sickle-cell-disease-cure.html?searchResultPosition=1

T-Cell Immunotherapy Pioneer Seeks New Direction for Solid Tumors
http://ow.ly/KlGE50xSLSP

Genetic testing as a frontline diagnostic tool for infants and children with inherited eye disorders https://go.nature.com/36HK6S9 #genetics #genetictesting