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A report by Chinese authorities on Monday alleged that He Jiankui violated ethics and research integrity in editing the DNA of human babies. Continue reading Scientist Who Gene-Edited Babies ‘Will Be Dealt With Seriously,’ Chinese Investigators Say
Local Chinese media says the controversial scientist has been placed under “house arrest” by a Shenzhen university which has since denied the claim. Continue reading Chinese CRISPR Scientist Who Allegedly Edited Infants’ Genes Is Reportedly Missing
The pups with two mothers turned out perfectly healthy, but things didn’t turn out so well for the mice with two fathers. Continue reading Scientists Bred Healthy Baby Mice From Same-Sex Parents for the First Time
As much as today’s American beer drinker seems to like hoppy IPAs and other pale ales, it’s a shame that hops are so expensive to produce and transport. Did you know that it can take 50 pints of water to grow enough hops to produce one pint of craft beer? While hops aren’t critical to beer brewing, they do add essential oils and aromas that turn otherwise flat-tasting beer into delicious suds.
Using UC Berkley’s own simple and affordable CRISPR-CaS9 gene editing system, researchers [Charles Denby] and [Rachel Li] have edited strains of brewer’s yeast to make it taste like …read more
New discoveries bring greater precision to gene editing. Continue reading We Can Now Edit Single ‘Letters’ of DNA
On Thursday, Ishiguro won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Continue reading Nobel Winner Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘Never Let Me Go’ Predicted the Gene Editing Debate
The gene editing technology could eventually herald the next frontier in fertility treatment. Continue reading Scientists Used CRISPR to Edit a Gene That Causes Miscarriages
Did you know you can build fundamental circuits using biological methods? These aren’t your average circuits, but they work just like common electrical components. We talk alot about normal silicon and copper circuits ‘roud here, but it’s time to get our hands wet and see what we can do with the power of life!
In 1703, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz published his Explication de l’Arithmétique Binaire (translated). Inspired by the I Ching, an ancient Chinese classic, Leibniz established that the principles of arithmetic and logic could be combined and represented by just 1s and 0s. Two hundred years later in …read more
Continue reading Living Logic: Biological Circuits for the Electrically Minded
Scientists are at odds over a study that says gene editing comes with thousands of unwanted mutations. Continue reading CRISPR Is Not Accurate Enough to Save Us Yet