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We each have 3 billion base pairs in our genome. Artificial intelligence can help us sort it out.
Genes carry the information that make you you. So it's fitting that, when sequenced and stored in a computer, your ...
Gene-swapping cheese microbes could provide clues to antibiotic resistance in humans
You and your favorite cheese—whether it's cheddar, Wensleydale, or a good aged goat brie—have something in common: You’re both home to a ...
‘Mosquito factory’ churns out sterile males produced without genetic modification to fight Zika
100,000 live mosquitoes, all male, all incapable of producing offspring [are released daily in Fresno, California]. … Though counterintuitive, the ...
Carnivores beware: Meat allergies skyrocketing thanks to lone star tick
In the last decade and a half, thousands of previously protein-loving Americans have developed a dangerous allergy to meat. And ...
CRISPR needs ‘global consensus’ in fight to ameliorate diseases
[A]t WIRED’s 2017 Business Conference in New York, Jennifer Doudna said it was...Crispr custom-designed human offspring that made her take ...
How genetics helps make cows more profitable and environmentally friendly
[J. P.] Brouwer, along with his father and two brothers at Sunalta Farms in central Alberta, runs the first commercial dairy ...
Sensationalism or news? Was journal right to publish CRISPR ‘off-target mutations’ study?
[When] doctors from Columbia, Stanford, and the University of Iowa published a one-page letter to the editor of Nature Methods describing...2,000 unintended ...
CRISPR creator Jennifer Doudna warns gene editing may be going too fast
Easy genetic modification could mean cures for cancer (yay!), kitty-sized pigs (squee!), and, yes, designer babies (ack). In her new ...
Does US need a ‘biology strategy’ to ensure gene editing research proceeds ethically?
With the arrival of the gene-editing technology Crispr, biology will soon converge with everyday medicine, big agriculture, and artificial intelligence ...
GMO disease fighters: Zika-destroying GM mosquitoes may soon be joined by GM moths to quash cabbage and kale pest
A half-inch-long moth that devours kale, broccoli, and Brussels sprouts may not inspire the same fear as a Zika-carrying mosquito, but ...
Backward regulations may prevent Europe from ever benefiting from easy-to-develop disease-resistant tomatoes
Engineering a tomato resistant to a pernicious fungal disease doesn’t seem like it’d be the easiest part of a plant pathologist’s ...
‘Functionally’ extinct northern white rhino could be saved through genetic engineering
The last male northern white rhino has seen better days. At the advanced age of 43, arthritic in leg and ...
Dementia, Alzheimer’s linked to soda — and why you shouldn’t worry about it
If you didn’t know better, you’d think Alzheimer’s disease is the plot of a bad horror movie: A creeping silent killer steals ...
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 ...
Autonomous robot cornfield scanner reveals how individual crops respond to climate change
Allow me to introduce you to Vinobot, the little rover on a mission to make sure crops weather global warming ...
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 ...
Why cells are like computers—And how ‘hacking’ them could lead to new diagnostic tools
Cells are basically tiny computers: They send and receive inputs and output accordingly. If you chug a Frappuccino, your blood sugar ...
Bananas and many staple crops may be doomed to disease if we cannot biodiversify
[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from the book "Never Out of Season: How Having the Food We Want ...
Human Genome Project 2: Should scientists synthesize entire human genetic code from scratch?
In May 2016, scientists, lawyers and government representatives converged at Harvard to discuss the Human Genome Project-Write (HGP-Write), a plan ...
Bee crisis? How intelligent sticky drones could buzz alongside nature’s pollinators
Tiny drones dressed in horsehair and coated with a sticky goo have been attempting to pollinate lilies in a Japanese ...
Genetically modified humans? CRISPR edges us toward ‘revolutionizing life’
The [CRISPR] technique is significant because it gives genetic biologists a powerful tool for gene editing. More importantly, it's cheap ...
770,000 spit samples yield genetic map of America’s post-colonial migrations
Using more than 770,000 spit samples taken from their customers over the last five years, researchers [at the genealogy company ...
Coffee renaissance: Genetics guiding breeders to make a better cup of joe
Genes are the future of coffee. Not nitro cold brewing or beans pooped out by civets, but genes. And coffee’s ...
Unintended consequences? Genetic engineering innovation stifled by Toxic Substances Control Act
[L]ast summer Congress issued reforms to the Toxic Substances Control Act, a 30 year old law governing how the EPA ...
Could DNA-tailored exercise become the future of fitness?
Boot camps have become commonplace - but an emerging trend in this fitness space is the DNA boot camp. I signed ...
Promise by GENOs start-up to sequence more genes may not mean more helpful information
Who will be the Apple of individualized genomics? The latest contender is Genos, a genetic sequencing startup that is unveiling ...
Stem cell therapy may enter era of “Inject and see what happens”
According to Congress, the logical way [to bring revolutionary treatments to patients sooner] is the 21st Century Cures Act, a ...
CRISPR’s ability to treat blood disorders illustrates potential as medical therapy
[T]he jury’s still out on whether Crispr will be as transformative as a medical therapy as it has been as ...
