Sharon Begley
CRISPR’s new upgrade cleans up messy aftermath
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Molecule by molecule, the ...
New CRISPR technique makes gene editing a little less messy
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. For all the hoopla about ...
Can money cure cancer?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Tech entrepreneur Sean Parker ...
Precision medicine for rare cancers could point to effective treatments
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In the end, the ...
Where do Americans stand on human gene editing, designer babies?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Most Americans oppose using ...
Nanotechnology ‘cage’ makes cancer drug safer, more effective
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. BIND Therapeutics describes itself ...
Should doctors, scientists stop grouping us by race?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. More than a decade ...
Why does ‘heroes of CRISPR’ author Eric Lander have so many enemies?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Genome-sequencing pioneer Eric Lander, ...
US government boosts efforts to identify genes linked to diseases
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Federal science officials have ...
Could single vaccine treat all types of cancer?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Precision medicine has been ...
How much does ‘bad luck’ play into cancer risk?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When a high-profile study ...
Scientists can engineer mosquitoes to render them sterile, crashing malaria carrying population
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. And now there are ...
Can insects be genetically engineered as bioweapons?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. “Gene drives” have enormous ...
Leading Alzheimer’s theory challenged by mounting research
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Drugs that target beta-amyloid, ...
Who is Feng Zhang, one of world’s most influential biologists?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. No one would guess that ...
NIH ending funding for human stem cell research in animals
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Over the years that ...
National Academy of Sciences seeks to set guidelines for use of CRISPR-Cas9
The National Academy of Sciences, responding to concerns expressed by scientists and ethicists, has launched an ambitious initiative to recommend ...
Hospitals to begin consulting IBM’s Watson for cancer treatment
Fourteen U.S. and Canadian cancer institutes will use International Business Machines Corp's (IBM.N) Watson computer system to choose therapies based ...
‘Precision medicine’ initiative to analyze over 1 million DNA samples
The United States has proposed analyzing genetic information from more than 1 million American volunteers as part of a new ...
Can scientists derive a cure for Ebola from blood of survivors?
A group of scientists including three Nobel laureates in medicine has proposed that U.S. health officials chart a new path ...
Ebola epidemic quickens
The cost of getting supplies needed to West African countries to get the Ebola crisis under control will be at ...
Supreme Court invalidates some gene patents but biotech has moved on
The following is an edited excerpt. The U.S. Supreme Court decision on June 13, 2013 to uphold patent protections for ...
DNA isn’t all-powerful: A challenge to personalized cancer care
(Reuters) - The cancer cells were not behaving the way the textbooks say they should. Some of the cells in ...
U.S. panel urges end to secret DNA testing
Blood stains from bandages and tampons? Ship them in a paper envelope for paternity, ancestry or health testing. EasyDNA also ...
