Source: CNN By Michael Nedelman, CNN (CNN)Researchers have rendered a population of mosquitoes in a lab sterile using the gene-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 by homing in on a specific target in […]
Source: Time By ALICE PARK When Nichelle Obar learned she was pregnant with her second child last year, she never expected that her pregnancy, or her baby, would make history. But […]
Source: Science Daily Date:August 29, 2018 Source:University of Kent Summary:Biologists have developed a new technique for manipulating small cell structures for use in a range of biotechnical applications including the […]
Science may one day guarantee smarter kids. Here’s why many Americans think that’s a problem Source: Deseret News By Kelsey Dallas SALT LAKE CITY — Strong religious commitments lead to less […]
Source: Pew Research Center Americans are more likely to anticipate negative than positive effects from widespread use of gene-editing technology BY CARY FUNK AND MEG HEFFERON A baby girl holds her mother’s hand. […]
Source: TED Talk Dan Gibson · Genome writer Dan Gibson leads a new breed of bioengineers, called genome writers, who use DNA to design and build new products powering the next industrial revolution. […]
Source: Time This is excerpted from TIME How Dogs Think: Inside the Canine Mind, now available at retailers and on Amazon. You speak dog better than you think you do. You may […]
Source: WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO By Kate Archer Kent University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are working to expand newborn genetic screening for Wisconsin’s Amish and Old Order Mennonite, collectively known as Plain sect communities. […]
Source: The Guardian BY Charles Pensulo Being born with albinism can be a death sentence in Malawi. With 22 recorded murders in the past four years, dozens more people have […]
Source: BBC News Children who eat more or less when stressed or upset have learned the behaviour rather than inherited it, a study suggests. A study by University College London […]
Source: Time Depression is a complicated condition, and so are the people it affects. It’s often difficult — and can take months or even years — to find the right drugs to treat the heterogeneous mood disorder. But for decades, doctors have been treating depression essentially by prescribing a drug and […]
Source: Time By SARAH GRAY February 27, 2018 Barbra Streisand cloned a beloved dog, as revealed in a wide-ranging cover story for Variety. Her two pups Miss Violet and Miss Scarlett (who appear […]
Source: BBC News US scientists believe they have identified a new gene mutation that can raise the risk of ovarian cancer, and is passed from father to daughter. It is […]
Source: BBC By James Gallagher, Health and science correspondent, BBC News Human eggs have been grown in the laboratory for the first time, say researchers at the University of Edinburgh. […]
A Report of the Witherspoon Council on Ethics and the Integrity of Science The Threat of Human Cloning Ethics, Recent Developments, and the Case for Action Executive Summary • Preface: Cloning Then and Now • 1. Scientific and Historical Background 2. The Case Against Cloning-to-Produce-Children • 3. The Case Against Cloning-for-Biomedical-Research 4. Cloning Policy in the United […]
Source: CNN By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN)For the first time, scientists say they created cloned primates using the same complicated cloning technique that made Dolly the sheep in 1996. Shanghai scientists created […]
Source: BBC By James Gallagher; Health and science correspondent, BBC News Testing all women for the “Angelina Jolie gene”, even if not considered at risk, would prevent cancers, save lives […]
Source: CNN By Serenitie Wang, Matt Rivers and Shunhe Wang, CNN Beijing (CNN)With his black, brown and white fur, Longlong looks like most beagles. But the puppy has been sick with a blood-clotting […]
Source: BBC News By Melissa Hogenboom Our quest to understand how our genes work started in earnest in the mid-19th Century when a biologist and monk called Gregor Mendel came […]
Source: BBC News By James Gallagher British doctors say they have achieved “mind-blowing” results in an attempt to rid people of haemophilia A. Patients are born with a genetic defect […]
