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Viewpoint: Advocacy group opposed to human heritable gene editing claims vast social and political dangers ahead
CRISPR and other methods of gene editing have captured the public imagination, spurring countless lectures, articles, and think pieces about ...
CRISPR gene-editing techniques could prevent illness by reprogramming gut bacteria
To date, CRISPR enzymes have been used to edit the genomes of one type of cell at a time: They ...
Why ‘junk DNA’ is critical for our survival
Nearly half of our DNA has been written off as junk, the discards of evolution: sidelined or broken genes, viruses ...
Why sickle cell disease is a perfect target candidate for CRISPR gene editing
When the gene-editing technology CRISPR/Cas9 was discovered in 2012 by Berkeley biochemist Jennifer Doudna and collaborator Emmanuelle Charpentier, it changed ...
15-minute CRISPR-based COVID test uses smartphone camera to identify coronavirus
Scientists at UC Berkeley and Gladstone Institutes have developed a new CRISPR-based COVID-19 diagnostic test that, with the help of a smartphone ...
Here’s why women are overmedicated
Researchers analyzed data from several thousand medical journal articles and found clear evidence of a drug dose gender gap for ...
Manipulating plant microbiome could yield healthier crops, cut chemical use, study shows
A new study by University of California, Berkeley, microbial ecologists used experimental evolution to help identify the core microbiome of ...
Nanotubes and CRISPR gene editing could make producing disease-resistant crops faster and cheaper
Inserting or tweaking genes in plants is more art than science, but a new technique developed by University of California, ...
Lou Gehrig’s disease might be treatable using CRISPR
University of California, Berkeley scientists have for the first time used CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing to disable a defective gene that ...
Pesticide used on organic farms may cause breathing problems in farmworkers’ children
Elemental sulfur, the most heavily-used pesticide in California, may harm the respiratory health of children living near farms that use ...
Mosquito suppression on ‘continental scale’ could be possible with CRISPR
Scientists at UC Berkeley and UC Riverside have demonstrated a way to edit the genome of disease-carrying mosquitoes that brings ...
‘Culture of confrontation’: Professor on abusive use of Freedom of Information Act in GMO debate
[Editor's note: David Zilberman is a professor of agriculture and resource economics at UC-Berkeley.] [A] few weeks ago, I received a ...
GMOs and Global Food Security
The high costs and uncertainty about the regulation of GMOs have slowed the rate of innovation of new traits and ...
Poor pay for the affluent’s misplaced anxiety over GMOs
I wrote several papers on the political economy of agricultural biotechnology that analyzes the opposition and support of GM. The ...