David Warmflash
Chemical residues on foods and why dose matters
Dosage is what decides whether a compound actually produces toxic effects in the short-term, or long-term effects, such as cancer ...
Gene doping in sports entails challenges and dangers but may not be so dopey
Athletes experimenting with gene doping may not be ethical, but it could lead to potential treatments of human disease ...
How will we use gene editing to treat human disease?
Technology for safe effective germline editing is not ready yet, but once it is, these are some of things we ...
Chemical fingerprints: Sensing emotions in a theater and life across interstellar space
How can studying carbon dioxide release from people watching a movie help us detect life on other planets? ...
Genome editing: Is it a national security threat?
Is genome editing really so powerful that it could do major damage, either accidentally, or through foul play? Or is ...
GMO high tech farm animals stuck on the shelf
Various genetically engineered animals have shown promise in research. But they wait in the wings with no certainly of whether ...
Chimeric organ transplants: Science and ethics of growing human organs in pigs
Scientists may soon offer a solution to the organ shortage by growing human organs in pigs. But that poses prickly ...
CRISPR genome editing could be game changer in war against antibiotic resistance
Using CRISPR genome editing, researchers are starting a new trend, which is to strip pathogenic bacteria of their acquired armor ...
Does CRISPR gene editing = GMO? Biotechnology skeptics may split on how to regulate New Breeding Technologies
The movement opposed to products that have been called "GM" maybe splitting into two, with one faction considering to taking ...
Designing GMOs for human Mars colonies: Follow the ‘toxic salt’
Before we grow staple grains such as wheat and corn on Mars , we need to deal with the soil's ...
DIY CRISPR-Cas9: Should we fear or embrace programmable gene editing kits for the home?
When you hear about do-it-yourself CRISPR, you may imagine amateurs cooking up something dangerous in their kitchens. But that is ...
Gene therapy 2.0: Will CRISPR make expensive treatment accessible to all?
Gene therapy, at a million dollars a treatment, will run up a patient's medical bill quickly. Can CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing ...
Will epigenetics play central role in advancement of precision medicine?
For many treatments it remains to be proven whether a drug's epigenetic actions, rather than another mechanism such as stimulation ...
GMO sustainability frontier: Helping crops acquire their own nitrogen
Tweaking a crop's genetics to help it fix its own nitrogen could avoid the need for massive amounts of fertilizer, ...
Y-chromosome not going extinct, but losing it may be risk factor for Alzheimer disease
The story of the Y chromosome began about 300 million years ago, when the ancestors of mammals diverged from reptiles ...
Transhumanism and 2016 Presidential race
Trump? Clinton? Johnson? How about Zoltan Istvan, he's the Transhumanist Party 2016 presidential candidate ...
40th anniversary of NASA’s Project Viking and beginning of search for Martian life
40 years ago, Project Viking first landed on Mars. NASA would conclude that the project found no evidence of life ...
NASA’s spaceflight DNA sequencer: What will it do for science and medicine?
DNA sequencing equipment will be on board an upcoming mission to space. If Martian microbes exist, then this is one ...
How Brexit will impact the future of farming, GMOs and gene editing in Britain and Europe
What does Brexit mean for crop and animal biotechnology in Britain or Europe? How might CRISPR and New Breeding Technologies ...
Eve of Mars colonization: Moon as test base for pregnancy in fractional gravity
Before anyone attempts pregnancy on Mars, we need to be sure if that would work, but recently NASA announced plans ...
Gene driving to combat insect-borne diseases: Powerful tool requiring science diplomacy
Gene drives raise ethical and practical concerns. What are the communication challenges? ...
Heard of CRISPR gene editing? It can save your life
Science is in the midst of a CRISPR craze as the technology is poised to improve treatment and prevention of ...
Human preservation: Will advances in cryobiology change science fiction to science fact?
Cryonics may sound very sci-fi and many liken its followers to those of some 'New Age religion'. Yet cryonics could ...
Advances in genetic research enhancing our understanding of human evolution
New data on early humans are coming in with increasing frequency and this has to do with advances in molecular ...
Should we trust experiments on one patient? Lessons from BioViva’s anti-aging gene therapy
The CEO of biotech company BioViva is a healthy woman in her mid forties, but last September she become her ...
Why it matters that Sanders aligns with conservatives on funding stem cell and cloning research
Bernie Sanders has consistently aligned with social conservatives on human cloning and stem cell research. What could this mean for ...
Artificial uterus: How close is the reality?
Nobody is working on an artificial uterus that can carry a fetus for the entirety of a pregnancy. But medical ...
