CRISPR
Video: CRISPR-edited crops could see mainstream success in 2019
[Food producers have] been lauding the benefits of CRISPR for a couple of years, and how different it is from ...
USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue pushes agricultural innovation as solution to world hunger
In a morning filled with inquiry, laughter and wisdom, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue conversed with Purdue President Mitch ...
FDA announces controversial ‘risk-based’ rules for CRISPR-edited animal technology
Novel biotechnology, like genome editing, holds tremendous potential to improve animal health, enhance farm productivity, improve nutrition, and even reduce ...
CRISPR crops spur farming innovation despite climate change, water shortages and exploding food demand
The discussion and debate surrounding advances in agriculture have become frequent topics of discussion....[N]ow more than ever, the concept of ...
Video: CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna explains Cas-9 gene editing
Prof Jennifer Doudna, one the pioneers of Crispr-Cas9 gene editing, explains how this revolutionary discovery enables precise changes to our ...
From high-yielding rice to disease-resistant oranges, CRISPR-edited crops could save our favorite foods
Some of the foods we know and love could be gone from the planet faster than you might think - chocolate ...
Viewpoint: No, we don’t need a moratorium on germline gene editing
Should researchers put the brakes on genetically engineering babies? Leading scientists and ethicists recently called for a moratorium on clinical applications of germline ...
International group of economists, geneticists calls for relaxed crop gene-editing rules to promote food security
With renewed attention to implementation and regulation, new plant breeding technologies such as gene editing could make an important contribution ...
Can the RNA editing race challenge the potential of CRISPR’s DNA editing?
RNA, a short-lived cousin to its better-known partner DNA, is the blueprint for protein production in cells. [Biotech entrepreneur Joshua] ...
Genetically engineered humans: How do we decide when it’s ethical to create them?
Bioethicist Matthew Liao is open to genetic engineering in theory, but he says he was rather horrified to learn that ...
Is society ready for the changes CRISPR can bring?
Crispr works in almost every animal that scientists have tried, from silkworms to monkeys, and in just about every cell ...
Gene-editing rock stars: Geneticists set record with 13,200 CRISPR edits of single cell, opening door to ‘radical redesign’ of species
Since its invention, CRISPR has let scientists introduce DNA changes at specific locations in a genome. Often these precise changes ...
Viewpoint: It’s time Europe updates its 18-year-old GMO rules to regulate CRISPR-edited crops
‘In lectures, I often try to clarify things by using the tomato as an example,’ says Ernst van den Ende, ...
We need a ‘global registry’ of all human gene-editing research, World Health Organization panel says
An influential committee of the World Health Organization said on [March 19] that it would be “irresponsible” to try to ...
Japan’s plan to deregulate CRISPR-edited crops may trigger backlash from consumers still wary of GMOs
Japan will allow gene-edited foodstuffs to be sold to consumers without safety evaluations as long as the techniques involved meet ...
Viewpoint: FDA plan to regulate CRISPR-edited animals as drugs will keep innovative products off the market
[T]he U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has proposed mandatory premarket new animal drug regulatory evaluation for all food animals ...
The promise of genetic engineering in medicine could be threatened by ‘bad press’
Because the disorder is caused by a single mutation in a single gene, sickle cell disease has long been seen ...
Viewpoint: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal wants to make agriculture more sustainable—but farmers are beating her to it
The Green New Deal puts forth a lot of idealistic proposals without much specificity, strategic planning, or research ...
Japan finalizes CRISPR-edited crop rules, suggesting gene-edited foods could hit stores in 2019
An expert panel of the health ministry finalized a report on creating rules for genome-edited agricultural and marine products on ...
Greenlighting of AquAdvantage salmon could ‘pave the way’ to disease resistant pigs and other GMO animals
[In March 2019], the Food and Drug Administration cleared the last hurdle for the genetically engineered "AquaAdvantage" salmon—the first (and ...
When targeting diseases, how worried should we be about CRISPR’s potential for gene-editing errors?
Of all the big, world-remaking bets on the genome-editing tool known as Crispr, perhaps none is more tantalizing than its ...
US researchers moving abroad to avoid FDA’s CRISPR-edited animal regulations
Alison Van Eenennaam offers a critical look at stifling US animal gene-editing rules ...
China tightens gene-editing regulations in wake of CRISPR baby scandal
China’s health ministry has issued draft regulations that will restrict the use of gene editing in humans, just three months ...
Why EU gene-edited crop rules may not be as ‘far-reaching’ as scientists fear
Gene editing is the biggest technical advance in bioscience since the discovery of “recombinant DNA” technology....[t]hat....led to the commercialization of ...
How much did the Chinese government know about controversial CRISPR babies research?
When scientist He Jiankui announced he’d conducted an experiment that led to the birth of twin girls with CRISPR-edited genomes in November, ...
New database tracks development of CRISPR-edited plants to spur biotech crop innovation
Recently developed gene editing tools, such as CRISPR / Cas, allow plant scientists to discover the functions of innumerable plant ...
Among questions lingering after CRISPR-babies controversy: When will it happen again?
In the three months since He Jiankui announced the birth of twin girls with edited genomes, the questions facing the ...
