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Decision to regulate editing genome of human embryo puts UK ahead of rest
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. UK fertility regulators have given the ...
Does microbiome health matter to overall health?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In 2015, a flurry ...
CRISPR patent dispute to be decided on legal technicality
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The U.S. Patent Office ...
Government-funded poop bank delving into gut microbiome
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Poop is a hot research ...
Biology ‘designers’ build new organisms by DNA swapping
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. To make something that ...
Intrexon plays long game, corners market on synthetic biology companies
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. You've probably never heard of Intrexon, but ...
Biotech companies adopting new vocabulary to escape anti-GMO stigma
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Here are some words guaranteed ...
Argentina developing eagerly anticipated drought tolerant GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Sunflowers are hardy, tolerating heat ...
Brain scans can predict intelligence
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Now that neuroscientists have ...
World needs international agreement on genome editing regulations
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The ability to edit a ...
Gut microbes linked to asthma risk
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Gut microbiota are everywhere nowadays, ...
CRISPR dispute: Who gets patent, and who wins Nobel Prize?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Nobel Prize speculation, gossip, ...
Human diversity, racial identity core revelations of Human Genome Project
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Sequencing the human genome ...
Pills with sensors to alert doctors up for government approval
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Getting people to take their ...
Advances in genetic engineering highlights fractured regulatory structure
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. As the battle over GMO labeling ...
Bill Gates, Google lend support to development of CRISPR-based clinical treatments
Bill Gates and Google are among some of the high-profile backers of a genome editing company that's raised $120 million ...
Generic GMO soy opens lower cost market and could be boon for academic researchers
Monsanto's Roundup Ready seeds increased farmer's yields, but came with a caveat. Because their pesticide resistance genes were patented, farmers had ...
Cripr-Cas9 DNA editing opens world of possibilities—and Pandora’s box
Crispr-Cas9 makes it easy, cheap, and fast to move genes around—any genes, in any living thing, from bacteria to people ...
What has CRISPR accomplished in three years, and what are the dangers we’ll have to face?
Preeminent genetic researchers like David Baltimore, then at MIT, went to the Asilomar conference in 1975 to grapple with the ...
Synthetic components added to DNA expand genetic alphabet
DNA stores our genetic code in an elegant double helix. But some argue that this elegance is overrated. “DNA as a ...
GMO animals face expensive regulatory hurdles before approval as food
No one eats genetically modified animals. That is to say, human beings have modified almost every domesticated foodstuff, plant, and ...
Ebola survivors’ blood may offer way to fight any disease
Past Ebola outbreaks killed as many as 90 percent of the people who got the disease. This most recent one ...
GMO lamb with jellyfish glow gene sold at French market poses no risk to humans or environment
A lamb born to a genetically altered sheep was deliberately sold for meat at a Parisian meat market, according to ...
Does your brain’s memory have a max storage capacity?
Each day you accumulate fresh memories—kissing new people, acquiring different phone numbers and (possibly) competing in pi-memorizing championships (we would ...
Modern genetics could bring back mouth-watering strawberries
Think about the best strawberry you ever tasted. Sweet, with a flavor that’s a greater-than-the-sum mix of overripe peach, underripe ...
Taco Bell, Pizza Hut go natural, but no one knows what that really means
Last week, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut both announced they are going natural. Goodbye Yellow-5. Ciao trans fat. Sayonara unsustainable palm oil. “Today’s ...
Are designer babies really in the near future?
Ever since in vitro fertilization made it possible for parents to select embryos with the best genetics, precisely-engineered progeny have been ...
Microbe ‘atlas’ shows what’s in the air you’re breathing
Advertisement. Every time you inhale, you suck in thousands of microbes. (Yes, even right then. And just then, too.) Butwhich microbes? ...
