Tag: CRISPR
CRISPR and other new technologies open doors for drug development, but...
C. Michael White, University of Connecticut
Prescription drugs and vaccines revolutionized health care, dramatically decreasing death from disease and...
Y chromosome loss through aging can lead to an increased risk...
Kenneth Walsh, University of Virginia
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‘Jurassic World’ scientists still haven’t learned that just because you can...
Andrew Maynard, Arizona State University
“Jurassic World: Dominion” is hyperbolic Hollywood entertainment at its best, with an action-packed storyline...
Genetic GPS system of animal development explains why limbs grow from...
Ethan Bier, University of California San Diego
Why do human look like humans, rather than like chimps? Although we...
Lab–grown embryos and human–monkey hybrids: Medical marvels or ethical missteps?
Sahotra Sarkar, The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts
In Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel “Brave New...
We discovered a missing gene fragment that’s shedding new light on...
Peter Koopman, The University of Queensland
It’s one of the most important genes in biology: “Sry”, the gene that makes males male. Development of the...
CRISPR can help combat the troubling immune response against gene therapy
Samira Kiani, University of Pittsburgh
One of the major challenges facing gene therapy - a way to treat disease by replacing a patient’s defective genes...
Rogue science strikes again: The case of the first gene-edited babies
G. Owen Schaefer, National University of Singapore
The idea of scientists tinkering with the genes of babies was once the provenance of science fiction, but...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
