{"id":236553,"date":"2026-05-05T19:08:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T00:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/genome-music-rare-disease-sequences-turn-into-songs"},"modified":"2026-05-05T19:08:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T00:08:35","slug":"genome-music-rare-disease-sequences-turn-into-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/genome-music-rare-disease-sequences-turn-into-songs","title":{"rendered":"Genome Music: Rare Disease Sequences Turn Into Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/genome-music-rare-disease-sequences-turn-into-songs2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The performance garnered a huge media attendance, allowing the team to accomplish their goal of bringing attention to SCID. Frishkopf hopes to perform the piece in a concert in the future.<\/p>\n<p><b><strong>Genome Music Raises Rare Disease Awareness from Concerts to Contests<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p>From a serendipitous idea to physical compositions, Kantipuly and her collaborators have demonstrated the power of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-scientist.com\/the-soundtrack-of-science-71981\" target=\"_self\">music<\/a> to bring people together and work for a good cause. Recently, the team connected with another composer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/caseymcpherson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Casey McPherson<\/a>, who also produces genetic music but in more modern styles and the founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tocurearose.org\/why-rose\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">To Cure a Rose<\/a>, a nonprofit organization focused on developing a cure for a rare genetic disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The performance garnered a huge media attendance, allowing the team to accomplish their goal of bringing attention to SCID. Frishkopf hopes to perform the piece in a concert in the future. Genome Music Raises Rare Disease Awareness from Concerts to Contests From a serendipitous idea to physical compositions, Kantipuly and her collaborators have demonstrated the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-media-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}