Antonio Regalado
Organs from transgenic pigs could address transplant organ shortage
Researchers have been shattering organ survival records in xenotransplantation, or between-species organ transplants. The researchers have kept a pig heart alive ...
Next generation GMOs? Monsanto experiments with modifying crops by spraying them with RNA
Using RNA interference technology, which temporarily turns off the activity of a gene, Monsanto thinks it has hit on an alternative to ...
Farmers now planting generic GMO soybeans as Monsanto patent expires
Billy Maddox planted 100 acres of Roundup Ready soybeans this year. The big news is he didn’t pay Monsanto a ...
‘Graph’ of human genome will reflect every possible combination of genes
The Human Genome Project was one of mankind’s greatest triumphs. But the official gene map that resulted in 2003, known ...
Arctic apple founder proves GM crop can be developed on small budget
The Arctic apple is the creation of Okanagan Specialty Fruits, a eight-person company in Canada that scrimped and saved over ...
Genetic tests in an app: Apple to enter into DNA collection business
Apple is collaborating with U.S. researchers to launch apps that would offer some iPhone owners the chance to get their ...
Technology is here: Using gene editing to prevent cancer
If anyone had devised a way to create a genetically engineered baby, I figured George Church would know about it ...
Growing concern over athletes receiving unproven stem cell therapies
Elite athletes do whatever it takes to win. Lately, that’s meant getting an injection of their own stem cells. The ...
Laboratories race to advance CRISPR research in spite of patent dispute
Last month in Silicon Valley, biologists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier showed up in black gowns to receive the $3 ...
How missing genes can lead to novel cures
Ten years ago, scientists discovered that some people are naturally missing working copies of a gene known as PCSK9. The ...
Personal genomics Wiki databases are next target for regulators
When Meg DeBoe decided to tap her Christmas fund to order a $99 consumer DNA test from 23andMe last year, ...
Can identifying ‘suicide genes’ help predict risk?
No one could have predicted that Oscar-winning comedian Robin Williams would kill himself. Or could they? When someone commits suicide, ...
Scientists call for careful regulation of species-altering ‘gene drive’ technology
Scientists working at the cutting-edge of genetics say one possible application of a powerful new technology called genome editing has ...
Steve Jobs’s legacy in personalized medicine
The tech industry's investment in personalized medicine and cancer genome sequencing is pushing the field forward ...
The dawn of genome trolling
The following is an excerpt. Last week European scientists were shamed into cutting off public access to a genome sequence ...
New company will bring extinct species back from the dead
Two of biotechnology’s most prolific and far-sighted researchers say they’re teaming up to start a company that intends to rewrite ...
The brain is not computable
At this year's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a top neuroscientist dismissed the idea of ...
Genome hunters go after martian DNA
Two high-profile entrepreneurs say they want to put a DNA sequencing machine on the surface of Mars in a bid ...
