Collaborate Disseminate
The researchers claim the DNA of twin girls was altered to protect them against HIV, but the results haven’t been published in a scientific journal and many researchers are questioning the ethical and scientific validity of the claim. Continue reading ‘Society Will Decide What to Do Next’: Chinese Researchers Claim to Create the First Gene-Edited Babies
The molecular mechanisms behind sleep were largely a mystery until now. Continue reading Researchers Edited Mice Genes to Stop Them from Dreaming
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