Elie Dolgin
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Brewer’s yeast could be used to produce rare cannabis-derived compounds that treat anxiety, pain
The yeast that people have used for millennia to brew alcoholic drinks has now been engineered to produce cannabinoids — ...
Lab-grown meat poised for commercial success, but technical challenges may delay its debut
Private investment in lab-grown meat is soaring as companies chase the promise of boundless — and delicious — nuggets, steaks ...
Resurrecting scents that went extinct 100 years ago
Move aside, Chanel No. 5. Scientists have now created a scent that’s even older than the iconic perfume, even if ...
Fighting cancer with help from the body’s internal clock
Chi Van Dang generally declines to discuss the science that made him famous. ... Instead of doing so, Dang [a ...
Biosecurity dilemma: Should mega synthetic biology company Ginkgo Bioworks be trusted to police its own industry?
Try as a nefarious actor might, it would be near impossible to order the ingredients for making a deadly virus ...
How to ruin cancer’s day
This article originally appeared at Knowable Magazine and has been republished here with permission. Chi Van Dang generally declines to ...
Can Joyn Bio’s genetically engineered microbes replace chemical fertilizers?
Big Ag is addicted to nitrogen fertilizers. It’s a massive problem for the global climate, yet it may yield to a ...
CAR-T engineering of patients’ own T cells for cancer therapy gains traction
The strategy of engineering patients' own T cells for cancer therapy got two major endorsements in late August, one financial ...
Tangled in mystery: How 6 feet of DNA squeezes into nearly every cell of our body
[Leonid Mirny, a biophysicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge,] argues that DNA is constantly being slipped through ring-like motor ...
Theory behind Alzheimer’s cure remains credible even after drug trial failure
A drug that was seen as a major test of the leading theory behind Alzheimer’s disease has failed in a ...
Call for FDA regulation of U.S. stem cell clinics
Unregulated stem cell clinics are proliferating throughout the U.S. A case in point is the Cell Surgical Network (CSN), which ...
Mathematician uses genetics in algorithm to find best drug targets for cancer
The way in which people receive cancer therapy is pretty much the same as it's been for decades: researchers determine ...