Posts Tagged: Tay-Sachs
‘New Hope’ in Fight Against Tay-Sachs Disease
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School are touting a possible breakthrough in the fight against Tay-Sachs disease, a genetic disease that killed 50...
Genetic Screening Urged During Tay-Sachs Awareness Month
JNS.org - September is Tay-Sachs Awareness Month and JScreen, a non-profit public health initiative based at Atlanta’s Emory University School of Medicine, is urging people at...
Will Sephardic Jews Join Ashkenazi Embrace of Pre-Marriage Genetic Testing?
JNS.org - “There is no person in the world without issues,” says Rabbi Yosef Ekstein, the founder of the organization Dor Yeshorim (“Upright Generation” in Hebrew),...
Jewish 100: Joseph Ekstein – Innovation
Joseph Ekstein Dor Yeshorim Having launched the Committee for Prevention of Genetic Diseases after losing four children to Tay-Sachs disease,...
