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US adults wary of gene editing: What does that mean for medicine?

Samir Shah | 
The Pew survey revealed that 50 percent of U.S. adults said they would not want genetic editing and 68 percent ...
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Elephant genetics offer promise in fight against cancer

Xuan Pham | 
It’s an odd phenomenon that scientists have observed: elephants rarely get cancer despite their massive size, and, presumably, more cell ...
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Manufacturing could be revolutionized by synthetic biology

Seb Egerton-Read | 
The emerging discipline of synthetic biology sits at the crux of the intersection between design, biology, computing and manufacturing...[I]t appears ...
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Sustainably produced ‘cow’s milk’ made using genetically engineered yeast coming to your breakfast table

Marta Zaraska | 
...[T]he next trend for [milk] isn't a plant-based alternative: It's cow's milk—with a twist. Though nearly identical to the stuff you ...
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Mini brains grown from teeth stem cells reveal secrets of sociability

Andy Coghlan | 
Can tiny brains grown in a dish reveal the secrets of sociability? Balls of brain tissue generated from stem cells ...
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Aggressive brain tumors temporarily halted using genetically modified immune cells

Karen Ring | 
One of the most deadly types of cancers are glioblastomas – a particularly aggressive form of brain tumor. Patients diagnosed ...
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Talking Biotech: Marketing expert Jay Baer’s tips on communicating about GMOs

Jay Baer | 
Marketing expert Jay Baer's tips on communicating about GMOs ...
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‘Hearts-in-a-dish’: Gene editing and stem cell technologies unravel mysteries of heart disease

When a patient shows symptoms of cancer, a biopsy is taken...But the same can’t be done for heart disease, the ...
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‘Brain blobs’ genetically engineered from stem cells can track effects of Zika virus

Ryan Mandelbaum | 
[C]ombined with gene editing techniques like CRISPR, it seems like there’s almost nothing you can’t just whip up in a ...
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How biotechnology is revolutionizing our lives

Sang Yup Lee | 
Biotechnology is a broad range of technologies that employ living organisms or parts of them to make diverse products. For ...
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Pacemakers made out of human stem cells may replace electronic models in future

Saranya Palanisamy | 
The very first functional pacemaker cells created out of human stem cells have been developed by scientists from the McEwen ...
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Cure for gluten intolerance feasible with synthetic enzymes

Research to create a cure for celiac disease that started [at the University of Washington] is now moving to the ...
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“Cutting out” genes linked to muscle disorder may restore movement in patients

Scientists are using "gene scissors" to cut off the code of a defective gene that results in progressively weaker muscles ...
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Progesterone: ‘Harmful’ hormone or ‘game changer’ for patients with recurrent breast cancer?

David Ellis | 
An international team of researchers involving the University of Adelaide is tackling the controversy over what some scientists consider to ...
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GMO wars will seem ‘quaint’ when 3-D printed meat is introduced

David Dittman | 
We love organic food. We hate genetically modified food. That’s how the cool kids think these days. But the nerds ...
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UN Biodiversity Conference: Anti-technology NGOs aim to block gene drive, CRISPR, synthetic biology

Mark Lynas | 
The UN Biodiversity Conference is taking place in Cancun through December 17. Activist groups and ... international NGOs can have a ...

Building “genetic circuits” in cells could kill tumors by depriving them of oxygen

Luke Dormehl | 
Imagine having cells in your body that can actively repel cancer in a way that makes it theoretically impossible for ...

Startup developing fragrant GMO moss to act as living air freshener

Madison Margolin | 
Over three years ago ... Antony Evans, CEO of synthetic biology startup company TAXA Biotechnologies, launched a Kickstarter project to raise money for a ...

Breakthrough synthetic nervous system performs “remarkably similar” to human system

Jess Vilvestre | 
In a breakthrough for regenerative medicine, scientists have grown intestinal tissues with functional nerves in a laboratory setup using human ...
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White House science advisors urge CRISPR bioterrorist defense strategy

Emily Mullin | 
Scientific advisers to President Obama warn that the U.S. urgently needs a new biodefense strategy and should regularly brief President-elect ...
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Gene therapy tourism on the rise as debate heightens over reproductive technologies

Rosa Castro | 
One of [the] unintended consequences [of regulating, prohibiting or authorizing the use of new technologies] is “medical tourism,” where people ...
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Bioartificial kidneys may soon improve treatment of patients with renal failure

Dom Galeon | 
Dutch researchers Dimitrios Stamatialis of the University of Twente, Roos Masereeuw from the University of Utrecht, and their teams have ...
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Could genetically engineered plants save us from global warming?

Eva Botkin-Kowacki | 
Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are rising, triggering global climate change, scientists agree. Researchers have been searching for ways to scrub ...
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‘Regenerative medicine’ and stem cell therapies hold potential for disease treatments despite grim headlines

Jonathan Gertler | 
Grim stories about the abuse of regenerative medicine and stem cell therapies have been in the headlines. Hundreds of international ...
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Bioerrorism: US military initiates Safe Genes program in case gene drives run amok

Josie Garthwaite | 
Over the next four years a new program in the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) plans to cultivate...a ...
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Designer bacteria: Genetically modified pills are a radical new way to treat rare stomach ailments

Eleazer Corpuz | 
Designer bacteria are organisms that have been genetically modified to include a new function to make it do something it ...
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Could genetic modification via insects protect crops against agricultural bioterrorism?

Tyrone Spady | 
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Biological Technologies Office (BTO) has announced a Proposers Day for the new Insect ...
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