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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 ...
Would you trust Facebook with your health records?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The American public does ...
Can gene therapy forestall aging?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Can aging be slowed ...
CRISPR gene edited food headed for dinner plates?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Agricultural biotech giants are ...
App store for your DNA could make personal genomics mainstream
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The CEO of the ...
Synthetic DNA greatly expanding capability to produce new drugs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In the May 15, ...
Human organ transplants from GM pigs may soon be a reality
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. With the financial aid ...
Organs from transgenic pigs could address transplant organ shortage
Researchers have been shattering organ survival records in xenotransplantation, or between-species organ transplants. The researchers have kept a pig heart alive ...
Next generation GMOs? Monsanto experiments with modifying crops by spraying them with RNA
Using RNA interference technology, which temporarily turns off the activity of a gene, Monsanto thinks it has hit on an alternative to ...
Farmers now planting generic GMO soybeans as Monsanto patent expires
Billy Maddox planted 100 acres of Roundup Ready soybeans this year. The big news is he didn’t pay Monsanto a ...
Methane reducing genetically modified rice in development
Not all climate-change mitigation involves changing human habits. In a paper in Nature, scientists unveiled a new genetically modified rice plant ...
Ancestry following 23andMe into consumer genetics business
With the launch of its AncestryHealth website, Ancestry continues to play Microsoft to 23andMe’s Apple. It may not be as ...
Should newborns have their genes sequenced to screen for congenital disorders?
For 51 years, newborn babies have gotten a heel-prick test in which their blood is screened for dozens of congenital ...
‘Graph’ of human genome will reflect every possible combination of genes
The Human Genome Project was one of mankind’s greatest triumphs. But the official gene map that resulted in 2003, known ...
Arctic apple founder proves GM crop can be developed on small budget
The Arctic apple is the creation of Okanagan Specialty Fruits, a eight-person company in Canada that scrimped and saved over ...
Genetic tests in an app: Apple to enter into DNA collection business
Apple is collaborating with U.S. researchers to launch apps that would offer some iPhone owners the chance to get their ...
How missing genes can lead to novel cures
Ten years ago, scientists discovered that some people are naturally missing working copies of a gene known as PCSK9. The ...
Despite resistance, China will dominate future of GMOs
China’s ruling Communist Party faces rising popular opposition to GMOs. As in any other nation, there are a variety of ...
Personal genomics Wiki databases are next target for regulators
When Meg DeBoe decided to tap her Christmas fund to order a $99 consumer DNA test from 23andMe last year, ...
Bio-engineered yogurt could make colonoscopies obsolete
A spoonful of yogurt could soon offer a cheap and simple way to screen for colorectal cancer. Sangeeta Bhatia, a ...
GMO ‘steak chips’: Replacing slaughterhouses with genetically engineered meat
MIT Technology Review checks in with Modern Meadow CEO and cofounder Andras Forgacs. Modern Meadow aims to create leather and ...
Biotech could increase crop yields by improving photosynthesis
Two down, one to go. Researchers have completed the second of three major steps needed to turbocharge photosynthesis in crops ...
Public fears stall approval of GM crops for commercial planting in China
Despite recent research advances, such as a new strain of wheat that resists destructive mildew, commercial planting of genetically modified food ...
Chinese researchers edit genes to make fungal-resistant wheat
Advanced genome-editing techniques have been used to create a strain of wheat resistant to a destructive fungal pathogen—called powdery mildew—that ...
Q&A illuminates the ‘golden age’ of memory science
When it comes to the study of memory, we might be living in something of a golden age. Researchers are ...
Q&A illuminates the ‘golden age’ of memory science
When it comes to the study of memory, we might be living in something of a golden age. Researchers are ...
