Looking back on gene editing’s thirty years of development

Amanda Keener | 
In the mid-1980s, Oliver Smithies, then at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and Mario Capecchi of the University of Utah independently ...
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Talking Biotech: 1000 Days’ Lucy Martinez-Sullivan on using science to tackle poor nutrition in pregnant moms, infants

Lucy Martinez-Sullivan | 
1000 Days' Lucy Martinez-Sullivan: Science, social awareness has reshaped nutrition for pregnant women, young children ...
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Nano-scale machines could revolutionize surgery and drug delivery

Paul Rincon | 
The 2016 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded for the design and synthesis of the world's smallest machines. The ...

Concerns about amateur scientists toying with CRISPR rise as price drops

Using...CRISPR-Cas9...does not require a high level of scientific knowledge, raising concerns that malicious "biohackers" or careless enthusiasts might create something ...
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Everything you need to know about three-parent babies

Jessica Hamzelou | 
A baby boy has been born using DNA from three people – the first ever birth resulting from a new ...
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World’s first baby born from new, controversial three parent embryo technique

Jessica Hamzelou | 
A five-month-old boy is the first baby to be born using a new technique that incorporates DNA from three people... The ...

Scientist create first map of gene interactions in cells

University of Toronto | 
Researchers at the University of Toronto...have created the first map that shows the global genetic interaction network of a cell ...
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Human chimera research key to understanding unknown aspects of human development

Paul Knoepfler | 
How is it possible that we understand exquisitely well how worms, fruit flies, and rodents develop, but our own species’ ...

Despite successful experiment, two-father babies still may not happen

Andy Coghlan | 
Healthy mice have been created using sperm and cells that aren’t quite eggs for the first time. New Scientist questions ...
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How evolutionary theory may complicate CRISPR as cancer fighting tool

Bryant Furlow | 
Using guide RNAs, CRISPR-Cas9 can target and inactivate any gene in a living cell. That makes a powerful tool for ...
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Future without women? ‘Pseudo-embryos’ could one day replace eggs in baby making process

James Gallagher | 
Scientists say early experiments suggest it may one day be possible to make babies without using eggs. They have succeeded ...
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Creation of first synthetic genome may lead us closer to superhumans

Philip Perry | 
[G]eneticists are now getting ever closer to, not just removing and replacing genes, but rewriting entire genomes...[G]eneticists at Harvard recently ...
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Talking Biotech: Single cell to plant: University of Florida’s Indra Vasil on GMO plant regeneration

Indra Vasil | 
Indra Vasil, retired University of Florida professor, on regeneration—Vital step in GMO plant production ...
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Impossible Food’s plant-based beefy hamburgers edge closer to market

Rowan Jacobsen | 
[T]he more attention consumers paid to the realities of feedlot farming, the more they wanted out. But organic, grass-fed, and ...
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Gene editing will challenge ethics at Biological Weapons Convention

Joseph Neighbor | 
[T]he signatory nations of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) will meet [on December 2016]...to discuss the state of bioweapons globally...[T]he world ...
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Scientists creating genetically engineered synthetic supermicrobe

Michael Le Page | 
It’s not finished yet. But if it is, it will be the greatest feat of genetic engineering by far. A ...
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Designing GMOs for human Mars colonies: Follow the ‘toxic salt’

David Warmflash | 
Before we grow staple grains such as wheat and corn on Mars , we need to deal with the soil's ...
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DIY CRISPR-Cas9: Should we fear or embrace programmable gene editing kits for the home?

David Warmflash | 
When you hear about do-it-yourself CRISPR, you may imagine amateurs cooking up something dangerous in their kitchens. But that is ...

Synthetic biology launches into new frontier

James MacDonald | 
Researchers have built something pretty weird­—an artificial stingray. The tiny creation, made of silicon, gold, and human muscle cells, was actually ...

Latest genetic engineering machine makes biotech research much easier

Casey Gilman | 
"It's one of the fastest-growing industries in America," said Orkan Telhan[, describing the biotechnology boom]... But the trouble with biotechnology ...

Despite public fear against human chimeras, three already exist

Rachael Rettner | 
The news that researchers want to create human-animal chimeras has generated controversy recently...But chimeras aren't always man-made — and there ...
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Synthetic biologists developing cells programmed to target, destroy cancer

Ben Locwin | 
Synthetic biology might be ready to graduate from cells engineered to perform only one task to multiple cells in a ...

GMOs in fight against Zika more than just about eliminating mosquitos

Jeff Bessen | 
The shadow of the Zika virus hangs over the Rio Olympic Games, with visitors and even high-profile athletes citing worries ...

Synthetic bacteria programmed to deliver cancer drugs inside body directly to tumor

Anna Azvolinsky | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A synthetic genetic circuit ...

Should we treat human-pig chimeras as people?

Julian Savulescu | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists in the United ...
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Crowdfunded DIY biologists learning genetic engineering not so easy

Antonio Regalado | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Glowing Plant project...has ...
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Could synthetic biology become tomorrow’s richest industry?

Ben Rooney | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [E]conomic growth comes down ...
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