Anjana Ahuja
Viewpoint: While African nations embrace GM and gene-edited crops to address climate change challenges, EU lags further behind, even as food prices soar
While some richer nations dither over how to deal with biotech farming innovations, scientists in lower and middle income countries are ...
Diagnostics, drug discovery, disease: How CRISPR is solving medicine’s biggest problems
This is the public face of genome editing or, as it is sometimes called, gene editing: a technology capable of ...
Evolution could push back against CRISPR gene editing of insects to stop Zika and malaria
Research published [May 2017] suggests that gene editing, a revolutionary cut-and-paste technology that allows bespoke adjustments to an organism’s genome, ...
A lesson in ethics from the synbio DIYers
DIYBio is a global collective of ordinary people who like experimenting in their spare time with chemicals they’ve ordered over ...
The firms putting a copyright on cancer
The following is an edited excerpt. Myriad Genetics has, for decades, been seen as the symbol of genomic greed. Ever ...
Three parents? Five parents? All that really matters is healthy babies
The following is an edited excerpt. If you are the parent of a baby with an incurable mitochondrial disease, each ...