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Right Turn: Favourite blog posts of 2022

Having written several “my favourite blog posts” over the years, I decided to turn this very important responsibility over to my communications colleagues at CCRM. I asked Cal Strode and Tannen Horber, who are both contributors and have bios on the site, to pick their...

Right Turn: Lupus’ moment

Back in 2014, Selena Gomez was diagnosed with lupus. The singer and actress has been public about getting chemotherapy to treat her condition, and her kidney transplant. The autoimmune disease causes the immune system to attack the body’s tissues and organs....

Right Turn: It’s time to talk about aphasia

Long before Bruce Willis’ family announced his aphasia diagnosis to the world, I witnessed the effects of it firsthand through someone in my extended family. Aphasia is characterized by difficulty communicating verbally and in writing, and the most common cause of...

Genetically engineering cures for sickle cell disease

If I were to ask you to think of a genetic disease that should be a priority for gene therapy research, you might say breast cancer, Huntington’s, or cystic fibrosis. And these are all great candidates. But I’d say you’re missing a big one. Sickle cell disease (SCD)...