Posted By: HGG Advances HGGA: What motivated you to start working on this project? RMS: The traditional approach to using model organisms is to introduce disease-associated variants and test for disease mechanisms. We wanted to try to flip this paradigm around, using what we knew about the properties of pathogenic aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase (ARS) variants to... Read More
Posted By: Kylee Spencer, PhD, Assistant Editor, AJHG KS: What motivated you to start working on this project? MG: During the pandemic, I found myself at home with three kids under five and adjusting to a totally new type of “normal,” which drove me to reprioritize my research goals. Being physically away from the bench,... Read More
For Immediate Release: August 5, 2024, 11:30 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time Media Contact: Kara Flynn, (202) 257-8424, [email protected] American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) President Bruce D. Gelb, M.D., released the following statement in response to the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee’s approval by a 25-3 vote of the fiscal year (FY) 2025 bill for the... Read More