Andrew Pollack
Cell therapy could deliver huge blow against cancer
Dr. [Steven] Rosenberg, Dr. Carl H. June...and Dr. Michel Sadelain...have been at the forefront of this research for decades,...[bringing] to ...
Trial involving genetically engineered cancer-killing cells halted over patient deaths
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Three patients in a ...
Scientists discuss synthetic human genome: What would it mean for science and society?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists are now contemplating ...
In 2015 worldwide acreage of GMO crops declined for first time since crops first commercialized
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The world’s farmers have ...
Genetically engineered mosquitoes get tentative go-ahead to fight Zika
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The federal government has moved ...
Genetic testing company releasing consumers’ data to public domain
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In an unusual move, ...
Biotech billionaire on mission to put self-destructing mosquitoes to use against Zika
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In the expanding realm ...
Blurred line between hemophilia patients, drug sellers raises ethical questions
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. LaQuenta Caldwell-Moody considered it ...
Gene therapy for blindness may become first ever approved in US
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. What could become the ...
Monsanto may look to Bayer CropScience after abandoning Syngenta takeover
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Monsanto has abandoned its $47 ...
Administration proposal to overhaul GMO regulations welcomed, but sharp divide on goals
The Obama administration said on July 2 that it would update the way the government regulated genetically modified crops and some ...
Is FDA-backed ‘Viagra’ for women a step towards gender equality in medicine?
After an intense lobbying campaign, a federal advisory panel recommended approval of what would become the first drug to treat ...
Scientist who discovered CRISPR/Cas9 weighs future of new technology
Three years ago, Jennifer A. Doudna, a biochemist at the University of California, Berkeley, helped make one of the most monumental ...
Why GMO-giant Monsanto made offer for Syngenta’s chemical-focused company
Over the last two decades Monsanto has cast off its century-long history as a chemical company and refashioned itself as ...
New genetic test will make breast cancer screening affordable for more women
A Silicon Valley start-up with some big-name backers is threatening to upend genetic screening for breast and ovarian cancer by ...
Law and Order: Using DNA to generate suspects’ facial profiles
Police in Columbia, S.C., last month released a sketch of a possible suspect in a murder investigation. In what may ...
Myriad Genetics ends feud over breast cancer screening patent
Myriad Genetics has essentially given up trying to stop other companies from offering tests for increased risk of breast cancer, ...
As cases decline, experts stress urgency of Ebola vaccine clinical trials in West Africa
As authorities and drug companies hurriedly prepare to begin testing Ebola vaccines in West Africa, they are starting to contemplate ...
Will gene editing and other new GM techniques sidestep controversy over ‘foreign’ genes?
Scotts Miracle-Gro Company is developing genetically modified grass that would need less mowing, be a deeper green and be resistant to ...
New method for clearing donated blood of viruses gains FDA approval
The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved the first system that could be used by blood banks to destroy ...
New weed fighting herbicide-tolerant GMO trait approved
The Agriculture Department has approved the commercial planting of corn and soybeans genetically engineered to survive being sprayed by the ...
Fertility clinics adopting high-tech strategies to pick best embryo for implantation
Annika Levitt initially resisted the fertility clinic’s suggestion that only one embryo — rather than the usual two or more ...
Drugs that block genetic breaks on immune system lengthen cancer survival
Drugs that unleash the body’s immune system to combat tumors could allow patients with advanced melanoma to live far longer ...
DNA test for cervical cancer gets FDA approval
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved the first alternative to the long-used Pap test as a primary screening ...
Genetic entrepreneur J. Craig Venter to tackle the problem of human aging
Craig Venter sequenced the first human genome. He made the first synthetic cell. And now, for his next trick, he's ...
Powerful new DNA-editing method
In the late 1980s, scientists at Osaka University in Japan noticed unusual repeated DNA sequences next to a gene they ...
Using genetic techniques to target just one species of insect
Scientists and biotechnology companies are developing what could become the next powerful weapon in the war on pests — one ...
Huge new genomics study searches for roots of genetic disease in 100k people
Here comes genomics, Take 2. Pharmaceutical companies invested heavily in genetic studies in the frenzy after the sequencing of the ...