Antonio Regalado
A third start-up joins the race to create ethically-acceptable CRISPR babies
A West Coast biotech entrepreneur says he’s secured $30 million to form a public-benefit company to study how to safely ...
Gene editing embryos: Crypto billionaire Brian Armstrong funding ethically controversial project
Brian Armstrong, the billionaire CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, says he’s ready to fund a US startup focused on ...
CRISPR chaos: Court ruling reignites patent war, could upend who is credited with the breakthrough
[T]he US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said scientists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier will get another chance ...
CRISPR pig joins a shortlist of genetically modified animals approved by the FDA for human consumption
Most pigs in the US are confined to factory farms where they can be afflicted by a nasty respiratory virus ...
Resurrecting dead species—Despite the hype over the dire wolf and the wooly mammoth, chorongenetics poses immense challenges
Colossal Biosciences, the biotech company behind [these] woolly mice [says the] eventual goal is to modify elephants with enough mammoth ...
100 people globally use brain-computer interfaces in clinical trials. Scaling up commercially is on the horizon
Implanted BCIs [brain-computer interfaces] are electrodes put in paralyzed people’s brains so they can use imagined movements to send commands ...
Musk’s brain streaming Neuralink is far from commercialization
[Neuralink] is not yet a commercial product. The current studies are small-scale—they are true experiments, explorations of how the device ...
Gene editing babies: For a few hundred dollars in chemicals, you could install these changes in an embryo in ten minutes
If anyone did create an edited baby, it would raise moral and ethical issues, among the profoundest of which, [Jennifer ...
Viewpoint: Why advocating for idealistic activist goals is ‘not necessarily heroic and may not be benign’
A precise gene-editing technology can make crops tastier, more nutritious, and more resilient to climate change. But can it avoid ...
Milk without cows? As bird flu crisis persists, biotechnology may offer safer workaround
A precise gene-editing technology can make crops tastier, more nutritious, and more resilient to climate change. But can it avoid ...
Immaculate cow-ception? Synthetic embryos for cattle and pigs stir fears that humans are next
An experiment, at the University of Florida, is an attempt to create a large animal starting only from stem cells—no ...
$4.25 million: World’s most expensive drug targets genetic disease that disables and kills toddlers. Will anyone pay for it?
There is a new most expensive drug ever—a gene therapy that costs more than the average person will earn in ...
Finding ‘beating heart cadavers’ — That’s what’s needed to fuel gene-edited organ research
The University of Pennsylvania connected a pig liver to a brain-dead person in an experiment that lasted for three days ...
How Casgevy came to be: How researchers found gene editing targets for newly-approved sickle cell drug
The world’s first commercial gene-editing treatment is set to start changing the lives of people with sickle-cell disease ...
Gene therapy treatment restores hearing to five children in China. Will the results last?
After deafness treatment, Yiyi can hear her mother and dance to the music. But why is it so noisy at ...
Can we cut cost and pain of IVF? Start-up CEO tries out own company’s alternative way to ‘mature’ human eggs in lab dish instead of inside bodies
While life expectancy is getting longer—it has been slowly rising for a hundred years—that’s not true of women’s reproductive life ...
A CRISPR gene-editing tool has been added to three people with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Is it working?
CRISPR is being used in an experimental effort to eliminate the virus that causes AIDS. The result is unknown ...
Brain-computer interface: Elon Musk’s Neuralink venture hopes to dramatically increase communication. What’s he up to?
Elon Musk claimed that sticking electrodes in people’s heads is going to lead to a huge increase in the rate ...
‘College prep might start in a test tube’: Should we test embryos for genetic markers related to intelligence? A plurality of Americans say ‘yes’
Imagine that you were provided no-cost fertility treatment and also offered a free DNA test to gauge which of those ...
On the edge of science and ethics: This startup wants to create human embryos to harvest tissue for transplants
In a search for novel forms of longevity medicine, a biotech company based in Israel says it intends to create ...
How one CRISPR-tweaked gene could permanently lower cholesterol
A volunteer in New Zealand has become the first person to undergo DNA editing in order to lower their blood ...
Chinese scientist He Jiankui, creator of first ‘CRISPR children’, released from jail
The daring Chinese biophysicist who created the world’s first gene-edited children has been set free after three years in a ...
Going bald? Scientists have reprogrammed cells to grow hair on mice. Are humans next?
Biologists at several startups are applying the latest advances in genetic engineering to the age-old problem of baldness, creating new ...
Could donated blood be transformed into lab-made replacement eggs for infertile couples? Silicon Valley is trying
Conception is the largest commercial venture pursuing what’s called in vitro gametogenesis, which refers to turning adult cells into gametes—sperm ...
BrainGate: Opening the door for paralyzed patients to use computers
In a 12-by-20-foot room at a skilled-nursing facility in Menlo Park, California, researchers are testing the next evolution of the ...
Can biotechnology extend your life? A Russian-born billionaire is betting he can make it happen
[Yuri] Milner is a Russian-born billionaire who made a fortune on Facebook and Mail.ru and previously started the glitzy black-tie ...
Human embryo research restrictions: Scientists move to drop 14-day limit on research
For the last 40 years, the rule, which is law in some countries and a guideline in others, has served ...
Lab-made embryos? Israeli researchers grow mice in artificial wombs
[Israeli] researchers have grown mice in an artificial womb for as long as 11 or 12 days, about half the ...
