Book Review: GMO Sapiens - The Life-Changing Science of Designer Babies
GMO Sapiens is just the annoying grit in the machine that the genome editing debate needs, but readers deserve clearer lines between science, speculation and opinion...
A genome-editing platform that uses an enzyme (Cas9) to make a double-stranded break at a specific location in the genome, directed by a guide RNA.
GMO Sapiens is just the annoying grit in the machine that the genome editing debate needs, but readers deserve clearer lines between science, speculation and opinion...
Paul Knoepfler's TEDx talk covers familiar ground — designer babies, segregation between 'natural' and GM children, unintended side effects, playing god, and eugenics all feature in his dystopian vision of a future involving genetically modified humans...
Researchers have pinpointed a gene that, if blocked, may stop Zika and other related viruses in their tracks...
A US federal safety board is set to review an application for the first in-human use of CRISPR/Cas9 genome-editing technology to treat cancer...
by Ayala Ochert and 1 others
The team that developed the CRISPR/Cas9 DNA-editing technique have now developed a new system that could allow RNA editing...
by Ayala Ochert
A second team in China report that they have created genetically modified human embryos, in an attempt to make them resistant to HIV, using the genome-editing technique CRISPR/Cas9...
Ancient viral DNA could be helping our immune system fight off infections from modern viruses and other pathogens...
Last week the front pages and airwaves filled with well-written, balanced articles about a significant development in UK embryo research. There was, however, something missing: a story...
Researchers have used the CRISPR/Cas9 genome-editing technique to correct a genetic mutation that causes blindness...
The CRISPR 'patent wars' have now officially kicked off in the USA, with formal proceedings to determine who controls key patents over the revolutionary genome-editing technology...
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