GM pigs take step to being organ donors
Source: BBC News By James Gallagher Health and science reporter, BBC News website Image copyrightEGENESIS The most genetically modified animals in existence have been created to help end a shortage […]
Gene editing: Gateway to Promised Land, or key to Pandora’s box?
Source: Religion News Service By Yonat Shimron | August 3, 2017 (RNS) — News that scientists for the first time successfully edited genes in human embryos created a stir this week. In the […]
Human embryos edited to stop disease
Source: BBC News By James Gallagher Health and science reporter, BBC News website Image copyrightOHSUImage captionPictures of the genetically modified embryos Scientists have, for the first time, successfully freed embryos […]
How Drinking Tea May Change Your Genes
Source: Huffington Post Amanda MacMillan Jun 02, 2017 TIME Health For more, visit TIME Health. Tea has been linked to numerous health benefits, from a reduced risk of heart attacks […]
How Scientists Think CRISPR Will Change Medicine
Source: Time BY Alexandra Sifferlin TIME Health For more, visit TIME Health. With the advent of CRISPR, a new way to edit DNA, the field of genomic technology has never been […]
Why some people never feel pain
Source: BBC By David Cox 27 April 2017 At the Institute of Human Genetics in Aachen, Germany, Dr Ingo Kurth is preparing for a rather unusual appointment. She’s collecting blood […]
Scientists Can Reverse DNA Aging in Mice
Source: Time BY Alice Park Mar 23, 2017 TIME Health For more, visit TIME Health. Researchers have found a way to protect a mouse’s DNA from the damage that comes with […]
Gene Editing: Promise & Peril
Source: Common Weal Magazine By Gilbert Meilaender March 13, 2017 Several of my children, in the summer before they began kindergarten, participated in a program called “safety city.” Among the […]
Human Gene Editing Receives Science Panel’s Support
Source: The New York Times By AMY HARMON An influential science advisory group formed by the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine on Tuesday lent its […]
Scientists confirm genetics of schizophrenia
Source: CNN By Susan Scutti, CNN (CNN)Creating an effective treatment for schizophrenia requires a better understanding of its biology, of the genes that cause it. Using technology to illuminate chromosomes, scientists confirmed the underlying genetics of this mental disorder. The identified genetic disruptions occur at a crucial time in brain […]
First ‘three person baby’ born using new method
Source: BBC By Michelle Roberts Health editor, BBC News online The world’s first baby has been born using a new “three person” fertility technique, New Scientist reveals. The five-month-old boy […]
Making babies without eggs may be possible, say scientists
Source: BBC By James Gallagher Health and science reporter, BBC News website Scientists say early experiments suggest it may one day be possible to make babies without using eggs. They have succeeded in creating healthy baby mice by tricking sperm into believing they were fertilising normal eggs. The findings in […]
Giraffe genetic secret: Four species of tallest mammal identified
Source: BBC By Victoria Gill Science reporter, BBC News It is a famous, gentle giant of the African savannah, but the giraffe’s genetics have just revealed that there is not […]
Passing My Disability On to My Children
Source: The New York Times By Sheila Black When I was pregnant with my first child, my ob-gyn referred me to a genetic counselor “just in case.” I have a condition […]
Many Americans are wary of using gene editing for human enhancement
Source: Pew Research Center By David Masci, who is a senior writer/editor focusing on religion at Pew Research Center. The widespread use of gene editing is rapidly becoming a present-day […]
Blame Your Genes For Your Coffee Addiction
Source: Time By Alexandra Sifferlin Some people can’t start the day without a piping hot cup of coffee (or two, or three). Now, scientists have identified a gene that may explain […]
China may be the future of genetic enhancement
Source: BBC By G Owen Schaefer, National University of Singapore From The Conversation 8 August 2016 Would you want to alter your future children’s genes to make them smarter, stronger […]
U.S. Public Wary of Biomedical Technologies to ‘Enhance’ Human Abilities
Source: PEW Research Center Americans are more worried than enthusiastic about using gene editing, brain chip implants and synthetic blood to change human capabilities BY CARY FUNK, BRIAN KENNEDY AND […]
Human Enhancement: The Scientific and Ethical Dimensions of Striving for Perfection
Human Enhancement | Pew Research Center By David Masci Human enhancement is at least as old as human civilization. People have been trying to enhance their physical and mental capabilities […]
Dolly the sheep’s siblings ‘healthy’
Source: BBC Dolly the sheep’s “siblings” are generally healthy, a study has shown, providing hope that cloning can yield animals free from degenerative illness. The first mammal to be cloned […]
