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Challenging the narrative that someone is manipulating the UN debate over gene drives

Jon Cohen | 
It had scandal written all over it. Disclosed emails revealed that a covert coalition lobbying for relaxed regulations around a ...
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‘Super beans’: Fast-maturing, high-yield variety could aid refugees in Africa

Karen Graham | 
Drought conditions continue to contribute to famine in Africa, prompting a search for crops that are not only drought-resistant but ...
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CRISPR 2.0: Targeting incurable diseases by ‘turning up volume’ on good genes

Hannah Devlin | 
Incurable diseases such as diabetes and muscular dystrophy could be treated in future using a new form of genetic engineering ...
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California cherry farmers look to ‘gene drive’ technology to kill invasive fruit flies

Antonio Regalado | 
Since it first appeared in Northern California in 2008, the spotted-wing drosophila, a type of fruit fly native to Asia, ...
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Gene therapy, CRISPR could provide treatments for sickle-cell, but cures far off

Michelle Cortez | 
More than 50 years after the cause of sickle-cell disease was discovered, a dozen treatments for the painful and life-shortening inherited ...
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Video: Entomologist Fred Gould critiques media coverage critical of gene drives

Fred Gould, Patti Mulligan | 
[At his talk on "Gene Drives in the News" at the National Academy of Sciences' Science of Science Communication III” Sackler ...
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CRISPR used to make bigger tomatoes without editing genes

Kara Coleman | 
Global crop yields are increasingly vulnerable to changing climate and air quality. To combat future environmental threats and increased population ...
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UN debate over regulating gene drives features powerful forces on the pro side

For some, a new cutting-edge technology called gene drive is the silver bullet able to wipe out invasive species decimating ...
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Video: Explaining CRISPR gene editing with a toy train

Megan Molteni | 
When people refer to Crispr, they're probably talking about Crispr-Cas9, a complex of enzymes and genetic guides that together finds ...
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Gene drives could combat exploding population of poison-resistant subway rats and other pests

Sarah Knapton | 
Figures ... show that London councils receive 100 complaints about rats and mice each day with some local authorities reporting ...
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Fighting Zika with drones and genetically engineered mosquitoes

Tom Metcalfe | 
At Rutgers University ... engineers are developing “skeetercopters” that can detect and map mosquito-infested sites from the air — and douse ...
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Viewpoint: ‘Radical change’ needed to make global food system sustainable

Peter Horton | 
The Green Revolution of the post-World War II era has rightly been hailed as a huge achievement for humankind. Transformation ...
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Gene therapy could be ‘ideal cure’ for hemophilia B

Laurie McGinley | 
[L]ast year, [Jay] Konduros enrolled in a clinical trial, receiving an experimental gene therapy at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia [to ...
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Gene drives: Nature editorial board calls out green groups for ‘unfair attempt to create damaging and polarizing spin’

[A]lthough it might not always be obvious, both critics and advocates of the technique — called a gene drive — tend to agree on ...
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Should organic farming embrace new plant breeding techniques like CRISPR?

Rebecca Nesbit | 
Over the last few years, new tools have rapidly created possibilities in plant breeding. These New Plant Breeding Techniques (NPBTs) ...
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DIY gene therapy? FDA is not a fan

Julianna LeMieux | 
A few biohackers (fans of do-it-yourself (DIY) science experiments) recently designed a gene therapy for HIV. Not only that, they posted a video ...
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Exorbitant costs of gene therapy raise payment concerns for patients and government

Arlene Weintraub | 
[Editor's note: Executives from several companies developing gene therapies gathered for a panel discussion at the recent Forbes Healthcare Summit, ...
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Podcast: Who should have access to gene-editing tools?

Scientists and researchers from major labs are putting their minds and grant dollars into gene editing tools like CRISPR, which ...
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Genetic engineering, synthetic biology poised to boost photosynthesis and carbon capture

In a feature article published in the open access journal eLife, an international team of experts led by Dr Bonnie Wintle ...
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‘Semi-synthetic’ organism expands DNA base alphabet

Antonio Regalado | 
Every living thing on Earth stores the instructions for life as DNA, using the four genetic bases A, G, C, ...
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CRISPR and agriculture: Technology improving crop yields, nutrition and stress tolerance

The present study reviews agricultural applications related to the use of CRISPR systems in plants from 52 peer-reviewed articles published ...
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Video: World’s tiniest tape recorder made with CRISPR and built from microbes

[H]ere’s a use for the bacteria we bet you’ve never considered: Scientists at Columbia University Medical Center have created the world’s ...
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Podcast: CRISPR co-creator Jennifer Doudna addresses ethics of human genome editing

Jennifer Doudna, Sam Harris | 
In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Jennifer Doudna about the gene-editing technology CRISPR/Cas9. They ...
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Insecticide resistance threatens to derail malaria control in Africa

Kate Kelland | 
The largest genetic study of mosquitoes has found their ability to resist insecticides is evolving rapidly and spreading across Africa, ...
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Can we solve the patent issues that threaten CRISPR research?

Lawrence Horn | 
[Editor's note: Lawrence Horn is President and CEO of MPEG LA, which provides licenses for standards and other technology platforms.] Although recent ...
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Sharpening CRISPR gene-editing accuracy with ‘molecular glue’

Silke Schmidt | 
[A]lthough [CRISPR] technology reliably finds and cuts the targeted stretch of DNA sequence, fixing that cut as desired has been ...
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Why life-saving gene therapy isn’t available yet to children who need it most

Emily Mullin | 
[The first patient to permanently edit his DNA,] Brian Madeux, 44, of Arizona, is part of a clinical trial testing ...
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