What Is the Blood-Brain Barrier? Our brains are the most complex organs that we have. Our brains perform functions that impact every single thing that goes on inside our bodies during the entirety of our lives,...
Who is my care team, and what do they do? These are just a few of the questions many patients and their families have after receiving a diagnosis. This article will provide an overview of a...
There are so many different diseases and it’s hard to keep track of them all. Tracking diseases is particularly important for healthcare providers, patients, and even those trying to study each disease. One of the...
You may remember from our previous Science Simplified blog post that our DNA is the foundational instructional manual that our bodies use to function throughout the course of our lives. Our DNA sequence is made...
The goal of genetic counseling is to help you learn more about how genetic conditions might affect you or your family. Genetic conditions are caused by a change in the normal DNA sequence, which is...
Graphs can communicate important information. Understanding how to interpret these graphs can help rare disease families understand important scientific discoveries and potentially understand clinically relevant information. While there are multiple kinds of graphs, we are...
There’s a lot of terminology floating around when we talk about scientists. Who is a scientist? There are scientists in industry, in academia and in government, just to name a few types of scientists. Since...
In order to fully understand SLC13A5 Epilepsy, it is necessary to study this disease from multiple angles, using many different tools. Thanks to TESS families, the TESS Research Foundation has been able to create different...
Scientists have many experimental models at their disposal to study genetic diseases, such as taking a sample of a patient’s cells and growing them in a dish. However, as you might imagine, cells in a...