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Scientist chases cure for her rare brain disorder using ‘clear genetic blueprint’

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In 2011, Sonia Vallabh was handed a genetic report that contained a death sentence. But it also held a map ...
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Could printable lungs solve transplant shortage?

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[Recently] I had the chance to hold a replica of the upper part of a human airway—the windpipe plus the ...
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What do we have to fear from synthetic bioweapons?

MIT Technology Review | 
A study ordered by the US Department of Defense has concluded that new genetic-engineering tools are expanding the range of malicious ...
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Will this ‘germ game’ help us prepare for a terror attack using a bioengineered virus?

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In June 2001, a group of government officials and journalists play-acted their way through a “germ game,” a fictional scenario ...
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This journalist lost a bet, and now he has to put his DNA results on the internet

MIT Technology Review | 
It all started after the arrest of the alleged Golden State Killer in April. Police had uploaded crime-scene DNA to ...
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Can we reverse aging in dogs through gene therapy? If so, humans could be next.

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The world’s most influential synthetic biologist is behind a new company that plans to rejuvenate dogs using gene therapy. If ...
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So we can clone our pets—are we moving closer to humans?

MIT Technology Review | 
The story that sent shivers up my spine...was about Monni Must, a Michigan portrait photographer who paid to clone Billy ...
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Gene therapy and rare diseases: ‘Is curing patients a sustainable business model?’

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An analyst at Goldman Sachs asked a troubling question...about gene therapy. “Is curing patients a sustainable business model?” In social media, reactions ...
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MIT Media Lab halts relationship with startup Nectome over storing their brains in fatal ‘brain uploads’

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The MIT Media Lab will sever ties with a brain-embalming company that promoted euthanasia to people hoping for digital immortality ...
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Precision education: DNA test for intelligence could be on the horizon

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Ready for a world in which a $50 DNA test can predict your odds of earning a PhD or forecast ...
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Battling ‘fatty liver’ disease obesity by identifying and gene-silencing mutations

MIT Technology Review | 
The search for mutations that conjure medical superpowers has turned up people who are resistant to liver disease, even if ...
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Counting on Trump: Approval of biotech animals may rely on circumventing FDA

MIT Technology Review | 
The lobbying effort to get the FDA out of the way of biotech animals is under way. ... [Recombinetics] is ...
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DNA fortune telling: Genetic tests could determine disease destiny from birth

MIT Technology Review | 
There’s never been data available on as many people’s genes as there is today. And that wealth of information is ...
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Searching for sleep: Genome mining project looks for insomnia links

MIT Technology Review | 
In a genetic study of unprecedented size, scientists have searched for inherited causes of insomnia in the DNA [of] 1,310,010 ...
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Gene therapy setback? Animal deaths in treating muscular dystrophy spark new concerns over high doses

MIT Technology Review | 
An influential scientist involved in gene therapy’s biggest setback, the death of a study volunteer 19 years ago, has issued a ...
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Is President Trump pro-GMO?

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“We are streamlining regulations that have blocked cutting-edge biotechnology, setting free our farmers to innovate, thrive, and to grow,” Trump told a ...
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Will new wave of gene-edited crops ease public fear of GMO food?

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To many scientists, the potential of gene editing seems nearly limitless, offering a new way to rapidly create plants that ...
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California cherry farmers look to ‘gene drive’ technology to kill invasive fruit flies

MIT Technology Review | 
Since it first appeared in Northern California in 2008, the spotted-wing drosophila, a type of fruit fly native to Asia, ...
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‘Semi-synthetic’ organism expands DNA base alphabet

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Every living thing on Earth stores the instructions for life as DNA, using the four genetic bases A, G, C, ...
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Why personal genetics company Helix sparks intense criticism

MIT Technology Review | 
It can’t be good when America’s most famous cardiologist, one with 114,000 Twitter followers, posts to social media that your ...
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Synthetic bionics: E. coli pills could boost body’s ability to absorb ammonia in the gut

MIT Technology Review | 
Synlogic of Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company behind the unusual study, is testing what it calls “synthetic biotics,” or bacteria engineered ...
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CRISPR ear injections repair genetic hearing loss in mice

MIT Technology Review | 
We all know that CRISPR is the next big thing in gene-editing treatments. But how do you get the versatile genetic scissors ...
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Human embryoids push bioethical boundaries

MIT Technology Review | 
Scientists are using stem cells to create clumps of cells that increasingly resemble bits of brain, lungs, or intestine. […] ...
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Muscular dystrophy ‘death sentence’ targeted by gene therapy trials

MIT Technology Review | 
[T]hree U.S. teams say they are ready to try to treat Duchenne [Muscular Dystrophy] with gene therapy. The first study ...
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Hacking frontier? Corrupted DNA used to seize control of computer

MIT Technology Review | 
In what appears to be the first successful hack of a software program using DNA, researchers say malware they incorporated ...
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China syndrome: Genome sequencing gives parents a glimpse of their babies’ genetic risks—for a price

MIT Technology Review | 
A Boston-based DNA sequencing company is offering to decode the complete genomes of newborns in China, leading some to ask ...
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Controversial CRISPR paper blasted by gene-editing companies Editas Medicine, Intellia Therapeutics

MIT Technology Review | 
Two gene-editing companies are hitting back at a scientific publication that caused their stocks to plummet, calling it wrong, filled ...
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Should we use genetically modified astronauts to reach Mars?

MIT Technology Review | 
At the International Astronautical Congress last September, in Guadalajara, Mexico, Elon Musk convinced many die-hard space engineers he could get a ...
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