CRISPR
Stanford investigating whether faculty has ties to controversial Chinese CRISPR baby experiment
Officials at Stanford University have opened an investigation into what several high-profile faculty members knew about a Chinese effort to ...
Rebellion against Europe’s ‘innovation-killing’ crop gene editing regulations grows among scientists, frustrated member states
Will Europe continue to be a science backwater? Does gene editing have a future in this part of the world? ...
CRISPR-based drugs face tricky manufacturing problem
There are two key challenges in delivering a CRISPR-Cas9 therapy so it is effective in the body: It must be ...
CRISPR gene editing: Using ‘nature’s own tools’ to combat food waste and climate change
A new technique is sneaking in our lives, potentially changing the foods we eat every day. From growing resilient crops, ...
Viewpoint: Human gene-editing ethics should not ‘be left to scientists alone’
There is one important takeaway from the controversy [about He Jiankui’s gene-edited babies] that seems to have gone overlooked in ...
Why the quest to create ‘super babies’ is a ‘fool’s errand’
Gene-edited babies should probably always be prohibited, not because of fears of creating inequalities and advantaged “super babies,” but because ...
‘Good enough to eat?’ Australian plant scientist battles ‘fake news’ about GMOs with new book
Scientists must speak out about the benefits of new genetic technologies such as genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and gene editing, ...
Viewpoint: Biologist Craig Mello knew about the CRISPR babies. Why his silence was ‘not acceptable’
The Associated Press reports that Nobel laureate and biologist Craig Mello was aware of a pregnancy in China involving gene-edited ...
Improving CRISPR gene editing of human cells with an ‘off switch’
For all its gene-editing prowess, mechanistically CRISPR is a bit like a power tool with a broken “off” switch. Hear ...
Consumer-focused biotech crops are here—but will the public embrace them?
It may sound like yet another gluten-free food start-up....but Crispr is a new molecular system that scientists can use to manipulate DNA ...
Viewpoint: New York Times’ mixed record on science literacy—botched reporting on GMOs and chemicals while challenging anti-vaxxers
The New York Times has done something that it very rarely does: It wrote an editorial in support of biotechnology. The piece, ...
Questions arise over US scientist’s role in CRISPR baby controversy
An American scientist at Rice University was far more involved in the widely condemned “CRISPR babies” experiment than has previously ...
Rodent-targeting gene drive could be delivered through CRISPR
Scientists are getting closer to creating a genetic pest-control measure against rodents. Female mice engineered to carry a genetic cut-and-paste machine ...
CRISPR used to fight virus hiding inside banana genome
Genome editing has been used to destroy a virus that lurks inside many of the bananas grown in Africa. Other ...
CRISPR could make wheat safe for people with Celiac disease
Research in the Netherlands and at the National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB) in the UK has found that gene-editing ...
‘CRISPR babies’ prompt review of international gene-editing guidelines: They ‘were not clear enough’
Less than two years after producing an exhaustive report on human genome editing, the U.S. National Academy of Medicine and the National ...
CRISPR explained: Everything you need to know
Here’s everything you need to know about the complex and sometimes controversial technology driving the gene-editing revolution. CRISPR evolved as ...
Viewpoint: ‘Now is the time’ for global laws on human gene editing
[T]he bedrock concept underpinning existing international agreements on bioethics and gene editing establishes that we don't have the right to use technologies ...
Why we don’t have to worry about ‘designer babies’: Altering intelligence is too hard
One of the main worries that the public has about CRISPR is that it could be used to create “designer babies” with increased levels ...
CRISPR-edited chickens are coming: Can they stop a bird flu epidemic?
Humans don’t usually get the flu directly from animals, but human outbreaks of bird and swine flu can and do ...
Viewpoint: Human germline editing offers ‘bright future’ if done carefully
We are at the point where our technology will soon surpass our humanity. It used to be that what we ...
Why it was no surprise that controversial CRISPR babies happened in China
The headline-making births last November of the world’s first gene-edited babies (twin girls) was unsurprising in one way: The scientist ...
Scientists could produce ‘green’ beer with CRISPR-edited yeast, but consumer fear of GMOs may stand in the way
First came the IPAs and then the double IPAs, triple IPAs, and imperial IPAs....Like most hipsters, I love a good hoppy ...
Could Brexit mean CRISPR? EU departure presents the UK with a food policy overhaul opportunity
Brexit could present the UK with a unique opportunity to modernize its food regulations, but it should tread carefully in ...
Learning about modern genetics through the long-extinct aurochs
The world’s first reported instance of species extinction is also a good window on today’s genetic revolution ...
Chinese scientist behind CRISPR babies committed crimes, will be punished, China says
The scientist responsible for creating the world’s first genetically modified babies violated government bans and committed fraud, according to Chinese ...
Getting out of the gene-editing mess created by Chinese scientist He Jiankui
There have always been rogues willing to carve their own paths no matter what the cost to others. But how ...
