CRISPR
Families plagued by inherited diseases push back against ban on gene-edited embryos
In 2012, scientists showed that CRISPR, an ancient bacterial immune system, can edit DNA. ... Barely three years after, leaders in ...
Taming wild plants with CRISPR gene editing in quest to find new foods
A pilot project with groundcherries demonstrates the huge potential in gene editing wild plants for food ...
Viewpoint: He Jiankui’s CRISPR babies experiment was ‘even worse than I first thought’
When He Jiankui announced the birth of twin girls whose DNA he had modified when they were embryos using the CRISPR ...
Australia adopts relaxed CRISPR gene-editing rules, ‘middle ground’ between US, EU extremes
The Australian government will not regulate the use of gene-editing techniques in plants, animals and human cell lines that do ...
Center for Science in the Public Interest calls for national registry for CRISPR-edited crops to address consumer biotech concerns
I am often asked which genetically engineered (GM) crops have entered the U.S. food supply. The question can be answered ...
With its biotech scientists forced overseas, New Zealand should rethink strict GMO rules, official says
New Zealand has a proud history of innovators and pioneering entrepreneurs who have turned ideas into world-beating businesses. It is ...
CRISPR co-inventor Jennifer Doudna: Gene-edited foods could hit stores by 2024
While ethicists debate the applications of blockbuster gene-editing tool Crispr in human healthcare, an inventor of the tool believes it has ...
Stanford investigation clears faculty members that knew about CRISPR baby scandal
A Stanford investigation has cleared three prominent faculty members of helping with a controversial gene-editing experiment led by disgraced Chinese ...
Geneticist Alison Van Eenennaam: The biotech advocate anti-GMO groups ‘love to hate’
Facing a tide of anti-GMO activism, [UC Davis animal geneticist Alison] Van Eenennaam has taken it upon herself to advocate ...
CRISPR-edited wheat could cut China’s toxic weed killer use
Chinese farmers are facing worsening problems with jointed goatgrass (Aegilops tauschii) – a close relative to wheat – growing in ...
Biotech firms rush to enter CRISPR crop market to meet global food demand
Agriculture technology (“agtech”) companies of all sizes are vying to enter commercial food markets. [In March] when news broke about ...
CRISPR-edited ‘super plants’ might be our best chance to slow climate change
If this were a film about humanity’s last hope before climate change wiped us out, Hollywood would be accused of ...
Viewpoint: Ghana’s anti-GMO groups urged to embrace gene editing technology
Scientists are urging Ghana’s anti-GMO groups to embrace gene editing technology to help ensure a more effective and productive agricultural ...
3 promising CRISPR therapies, including one targeting Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
With dozens of efforts in the making, from premature aging to obesity and developmental brain disorders, here are the frontrunners ...
Transparency and trust: Is there room for ‘the people’ in the human gene editing debate?
How does excluding the people service the WHO's stated goals of transparency and trust? ...
Domestication ‘reboot’: CRISPR gene editing turns wild plants into desirable fruits and vegetables
Early in the 20th century, a strange tomato plant took root in the northeastern United States. Because of a random ...
Belgium permits CRISPR-edited corn field trial, halted after landmark EU court decision, to continue
On April 12, 2019 [the Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie in Belgium] was granted a permit for its field trial with ...
Viewpoint: Outgoing FDA chief Scott Gottlieb scored some wins, but dropped the ball on food labeling, gene-edited plants and animals
Gottlieb’s policy proposals for FDA oversight of gene-edited plants and animals were as inexplicable as they were inconsistent with longstanding U.S. policy ...
Can light-activated CRISPR lead to new treatments for cancer, diabetes?
Engineers are making their mark on biotech’s hottest commodity. Chinese scientists [April 3] reported that they can control the gene editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 with ...
Why scientific arguments won’t end Europe’s opposition to CRISPR-edited crops
John van der Oost....is a microbiologist at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. His research in the late 1990s contributed to ...
Viewpoint: Gene-edited kids are no riskier than the non-edited variety
"The introduction of genetic modifications into future generations could have permanent and possibly harmful effects on the species," a group ...
CRISPR gene editing yields world’s smallest tomatoes to feed astronauts
Scientists at the National University of Colombia have bred the smallest tomato in the world using DNA from a cherry ...
CRISPR-edited crops could help avoid famine as global food demand grows
Just like human beings, plants get sick. Microorganisms such as fungi, oomycetes, bacteria, viruses and nematodes (tiny worm like organisms) ...
CRISPR’s challenge: It’s still easier to subtract genes than it is to add them
Almost always, building something is harder than tearing it down. Similarly, knocking in genes poses a greater challenge than knocking ...
Viewpoint: Europe’s overregulation of CRISPR-edited crops ‘cripples’ Africa’s food security efforts
Current GMO regulation is crippling advancements in sustainable development and food security, according to agricultural economist Matin Qaim, who told ...
Viewpoint: FDA plan to regulate gene-edited animals as drugs will thwart US food innovation
In the absence of sensible regulation of the breathtaking genetic variation that exists naturally in our food species, innovation will ...
Why Nobel laureate David Baltimore doesn’t support moratorium on CRISPR babies
Some scientists have recently proposed a temporary moratorium on editing that would result in babies that carry heritable changes. … Science ...
