Human Gene Editing
CRISPR gene editing successfully used on non-human primate for first time in US
In a study led by Michigan State University, scientists have shown that gene editing using CRISPR/Cas9 technology can be quite ...
CRISPR primer: Explaining the powerful gene-editing tool
CRISPR technology is a simple yet powerful tool for editing genomes. It allows researchers to easily alter DNA sequences and ...
Epigenetics Around the Web: IFL Science doesn’t f****** understand how humans ‘inherit’ modifications
The popular science site IFL Science whiffs at covering a major study; and can we please stop talking about 'space ...
Restoring sight: CRISPR could reprogram cells to treat retinitis pigmentosa
Using the gene-editing tool CRISPR/Cas9, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Shiley Eye Institute at ...
Are 3-parent babies products of eugenics or the desire to save lives?
The most astonishing gene therapy news this year has been the crafting of three-parent babies. The in-vitro fertilization practice, known ...
Inheritance of epigenetic modifications observed through 14 generations in roundworms
To a degree, our lineage dictates how our genes are expressed, how we look, age, and live. However, a recent study ...
Can epigenetics help fuel personalized medicine revolution in cancer treatment?
Already, doctors, to some degree, use personal genomics tests that integrate our unique genetic makeup into clinical decision-making. However, there ...
Could it be possible to slow, or even rewind, our body’s aging clock?
Ageing in humans (and animals) can be seen as either an inevitable process of wear and tear or as an ...
Does gene editing change who we are as ‘humans’?
DNA-based technology’s entry into the mainstream has been picking up lately.... But rapid advances mean it is becoming increasingly feasible ...
Epigenetics Around the Web: Evolution of instincts — How ‘real’ is behavioral plasticity?
A researcher's decision to broadcast his controversial hypothesis about the evolution of instincts is irresponsible, and a study throws cold ...
Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week – April 24, 2017
GMO corn that resists cancer-causing aflatoxin showcases biotech’s life-saving potential | Steve Savage Behold the octopus: Problem solver, tool user and now, ...
DNA glowing in 3D: We can now track genes moving in real time using CRISPR
Mazhar Adli, of the University of Virginia School of Medicine’s Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, has developed a way to ...
Edible ‘CRISPR pill’ instructs harmful bacteria to self-destruct, may revolutionize fight against antibiotic resistance
As resistance to antibiotics grows in the U.S., researchers are looking for new ways to fight germs like Clostridium difficile, ...
Behold the octopus: Problem solver, tool user and now, gene editor
The more we learn about octopuses and squids, the more mysterious they become. The ability to edit their own RNA ...
CRISPR conundrum: Is there a line between GMOs and ‘natural’ crops when genes are edited?
New gene-editing techniques like CRISPR can be detected, but can't be distinguished from "natural" genetic changes. Should regulators and the ...
How CRISPR gene editing will ‘supercharge’ agriculture
[J]ust as corn helped create these civilizations, these civilizations helped create corn through meticulous selective breeding. Today’s grain hardly resembles ...
Epigenetics Around the Web: Epigenetics and health in 2030, botched vitamin B cure, and more
This week’s features: Vitamin B still won't protect you from air pollution, and epigenetics and the city of 2030. Plus, ...
SHERLOCK gene tool can identify Zika in blood, help prepare for epidemics
A tool based on CRISPR has been shown to detect the Zika virus in blood, urine and saliva. It was ...
Designer pigs could save thousands of lives in China, which lacks an ‘organ-donation culture’
Where other people see bacon, biologist Luhan Yang sees lifesaving organs — hundreds and thousands of them...[Yang] intends to use ...
Will organic community embrace gene editing if it restores ancient crops?
Precision genetic engineering techniques could bring back beneficial genes from wild relatives of crops without using foreign genes. The concept ...
Genetics branding: CRISPR sounds like a breakfast bar and that may be confusing
[D]espite massive hype in the science and general press, [the gene-editing tool CRISPR] probably remains unfamiliar or misunderstood to many ...
Tree vaccine: ‘Weaponized’ GM virus could save Florida citrus industry from greening disease
Florida’s citrus growers are running out of time. Since 2005, when a deadly disease called citrus greening first showed up ...
Keys to heart disease, diabetes, cancer may be in genome’s ‘dark matter’
A new method lets researchers quickly screen the non-coding DNA of the human genome for links to diseases that are driven ...
Rigging natural selection: Fight against Zika requires mosquito genes that resist mutations
Of the many great things promised by Crispr gene editing technology, the ability to eliminate disease by modifying organisms might ...
Video: CRISPR-created seedless tomatoes could eliminate need for bee pollination
Don’t like the seeds in tomatoes? You might be pleased to know that seedless ones have been created by gene editing ...
Will CRISPR plant breeding be used for good — Or mostly to drive corporate profit?
This rapid-fire timing [of agribusiness mergers] may have been a coincidence, but it also may be a sign of what’s ...
Epigenetics Around the Web: No, income inequality does not cause epigenetic changes, botching Lamarck, and more
A psychology professor claims that income inequality is causing epigenetic changes and a Huffington Post article on climate change and ...
