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Language Shaped by Silence

The mind and craft of a deaf writer

Knock on Wood

Solutions don’t always grow in trees

Exclaim!

Pop punk in the key of eh

Alison Motluk

Alison Motluk is a Toronto journalist specializing in health and science.

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Copy of a Copy of a Copy

When genetic error is introduced October 2026
I write a lot about reproduction, so my way into this book, as with so many things these days, was sperm. Every day, men produce millions of new sperm, derived from stem cells, which have to replenish themselves through cell division. That involves copying the entire genome: the body’s complete set of instructions, which is about 3 billion “letters”…