MIT Technology Review
Despite hype and promise of cures, only a few gene therapy trials have yielded helpful drugs
Most experts in the medical field will tell you that gene therapy has finally come of age, but the numbers ...
Pioneering stem cell treatment may help patients with spinal-cord injury
A company that stepped in to salvage the first-ever medical use of human embryonic stem cells says it has encouraging ...
Gates Foundation doubling efforts to use CRISPR to create mosquito-killing technology
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation plans to double the sum it is spending to create a mosquito-killing technology that ...
Gene therapy breaking ground in treating Parkinson’s disease
Parkinson’s patients who take the drug levodopa, or L-Dopa, are inevitably disappointed...[when,] over time[,] the drug becomes less effective... A ...
Curing diseases with embryonic stem cells proving much harder than expected
[N]o field of biotechnology has promised more and delivered less in the way of treatments than embryonic stem cells. Only ...
Gene therapy recovery drug for $665,000 offered with money back guarantee
A gene therapy will be offered for sale in Europe with a money-back guarantee, according to GlaxoSmithKline, the company commercializing ...
Precision medicine revolution moves to developing world
Colon cancer is less common in India than in the U.S., but it tends to affect younger people and to ...
23andMe mobilizes its massive genome database to unravel depression clues
A scientific expedition into the DNA of more than 400,000 customers of gene-testing company 23andMe has uncovered the first major ...
Craig Venter’s goal is to sequence 100 million genomes
[Craig] Venter’s goal is to sequence at least one million genomes, something that seems likely to take the better part of ...
Seeds with ‘optimal’ microbiomes could boost yield
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A new treatment for ...
How long will it take to achieve White House’s precision medicine goals?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [D]espite the early successes, ...
Crowdfunded DIY biologists learning genetic engineering not so easy
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Glowing Plant project...has ...
Microsoft predicts DNA as future of data storage
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [Microsoft] reported [July 7] ...
Napster founder funding CRISPR use in cancer research, wants to make science available to all
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The first proposed test ...
Gene therapy now consistently and effectively treating hemophilia
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Bill Maurits has hemophilia ...
Inadequate tools, religious implications among concerns regarding genome synthesis project
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. More than 130 scientists, ethicists, ...
Monsanto’s anti-aging technology could prolong life of fresh flowers, reduce waste
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Monsanto is working on ...
Gene editing upends traditional notion of what is a GMO
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [T]he term “GMO” is ...
Geneticists have plans to build synthetic human genome: Here’s what you need to know
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The biggest beneficiary of ...
Genetic mutation linked to heart attacks inspires new drugs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When Sean Harper took ...
Can genetically modified mosquitoes save Hawaii’s birds?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Ecologist Eben Paxton, speaking ...
No single ‘fountain of youth’ yet identified in genome
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Nonie Hickle’s hair is ...
‘Amazon’ for DNA democratizing CRISPR gene editing research
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The gene-editing technology called ...
First patient to undergo optogenetic therapy hopes to restore sight
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A blind woman in ...
Promising optogenetics procedure may restore sight to blind
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. If all goes according ...
Microbiome may spawn new drugs for range of conditions
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. What function does your ...
Genetic engineering may drive Zika carrying mosquitos to extinction
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A controversial genetic technology ...
US patent office to settle CRISPR ownership dispute
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. As this magazine and ...