Human Gene Editing
Anti-aging hormone boosts cognitive abilities in mice – could humans be next?
[Klotho is] a naturally occurring hormone in the body. More than two decades ago, Japanese researchers discovered that this hormone ...
11 things CRISPR gene editing has helped us achieve this year
The CRISPR//Cas9 gene editing tool has quickly earned a reputation as a revolutionary technology, and its merits support the clout ...
Harvard’s George Church: CRISPR could give us pig-to-human organ transplants within 2 years
In a bold scientific step that helps open the door to organ transplants from animals, researchers at Harvard and a ...
Why use gene editing on human embryos when other options are available?
Researchers in the U.S. and South Korea have shown that gene editing can correct a genetic disorder in an embryo. Using CRISPR-Cas9, ...
Genome destruction: CRISPR used to remove entire Y chromosome in mice
Researchers have managed to wipe out an entire mouse chromosome using CRISPR-Cas9. They aimed numerous double-strand breaks at either the ...
CRISPR revolution: How scientists are turning gene-editing hype into food and medical breakthroughs
The powerful gene-editing tool is becoming ubiquitous, appearing in the media with ever increasing frequency. But it's more than just ...
Human germline editing ethics proposal: ‘No human pregnancy’
A team of genetics experts has issued a policy statement recommending that research on editing human genes in eggs, sperm and early ...
We each have 3 billion base pairs in our genome. Artificial intelligence can help us sort it out.
Genes carry the information that make you you. So it's fitting that, when sequenced and stored in a computer, your ...
Epigenetics Around the Web: Should farmers use vinegar, instead of genetically engineered solutions, to protect crops from drought?
A new study being peddled by anti-GMO activists suggests that table vinegar may be equal or superior to advanced breeding ...
Are obesity, diabetes and other diseases treatable using gene-therapy skin grafts?
A research team based at the University of Chicago has overcome challenges that have limited gene therapy and demonstrated how ...
Podcast: Can the food we eat change our RNA and the way genes work?
Molecular biologist Ken Witwer: Can the food we eat change our RNA and the way our genes work? ...
How to prevent a ‘mistake’ with release of gene-edited mosquitoes? On-off switches
So, you’ve genetically engineered a malaria-resistant mosquito, now what? How many mosquitos would you need to replace the disease-carrying wild ...
Non-genetic factors may play significant role in species evolution
An unspoken frustration for evolutionary biologists over the past 100 years, says Craig Albertson at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, ...
Pioneering gene therapy restores vision to people with rare retinal blindness
Spark Therapeutics is moving forward with its treatment for a type of inherited retinal dystrophy. In the wake of the ...
When genetic engineering is the environmentally friendly choice
The newest generation of genetically engineered crops, using CRISPR gene editing, can help farmers fight pests with only minimal changes ...
Understanding how CRISPR works: The basics
CRISPR stands for “clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats.” Those repeats are elements of the genetic code in DNA. Cas9 is an enzyme that ...
CRISPR gene editing advances may outrun regulatory oversight
[Recently,] reports emerged that scientists in Oregon had used gene-editing technology, known as CRISPR-Cas9, to edit a human embryo. While ...
Retracted: Controversial study claiming alternative gene editor NgAgo superior to CRISPR
The author of a 2016 paper describing a potentially invaluable lab tool has retracted it, following heavy criticism from outside ...
Muscular dystrophy in dogs reversed with gene therapy–are children next?
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is the most common and, sadly, the most severe form of the debilitating genetic disorder. Now ...
Opinion: GMOs could help address world hunger—if ag giants focused on people, not profit
[Transgenic crops] combine genetic material obtained through the most modern biotechnology. This...technology allows plant breeders to bring useful genes together ...
Food Evolution interview: Could ‘pro science’ documentary inspire a pro-GMO food movement?
Food Evolution director Scott Hamilton Kennedy talks with the Genetic Literacy Project about the film's funding, and challenges the "ruthless ...
Designer babies? US scientists swap DNA in embryos, replacing mutation that causes heart problems
The breakthrough procedure might better be called 'gene correction' rather than gene editing. It could revolutionize genetic disease treatments, but ...
Beneficial ‘natural’ gene mutation could be effective in treating sickle cell
Sickle cell disease (SCD) patients have a genetic defect that leads them to produce hemoglobin S, or sickle hemoglobin, instead of ...
Ethical rubicon: Should we take ‘next steps’ toward designer humans?
Scientists in Portland, Oregon, just succeeded in creating the first genetically modified human embryo in the United States, according to Technology ...
Who invented CRISPR gene editing: Broad Institute v University of California patent battle intensifies
The University of California (UC) has fired another legal salvo in the prolonged patent battle over CRISPR, the revolutionary gene-editing ...
US first: CRISPR-edited human embryos
The first known attempt at creating genetically modified human embryos in the United States has been carried out by a ...
Gene therapy leukemia treatments approval expected by end of 2017
The approval of gene therapy for leukemia, expected in the next few months, will open the door to a radically ...
