Collaborate Disseminate
For the last 20 million years, the species of yeast used to brew beer has had 16 chromosomes. Now scientists have created a new species with just one. Continue reading Chinese Scientists Used CRISPR to Make a New Species With ‘One Giant Chromosome’
The breakthrough gene therapy has hit some major stumbling blocks in the last few months that threaten its status as a therapy. Continue reading DNA Damage from CRISPR Has Been ‘Seriously Underestimated’
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
The new delivery mechanism completely turned off a gene responsible for high cholesterol in mice. Continue reading CRISPR Can Now Edit Genes Using Nanoparticles Instead of Viruses
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
While DNA is a reasonably good storage medium, it’s not particularly fast, cheap, or convenient to read and write to.
What if living cells could simplify that by recording useful data into their own DNA for later analysis? At Harvard Medical School, scientists are working towards this goal by using CRISPR to encode and retrieve a short video in bacterial cells.
CRISPR is part of the immune system of many bacteria, and works by storing sequences of viral DNA in a specific location to identify and eliminate viral infections. As a tool for genetic engineering, it’s cheaper and has fewer …read more
Continue reading Movie Encoded in DNA is the First Step Toward Datalogging with Living Cells
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