Tag: Gene Editing
Promising assisted reproductive technologies come with ethical, legal and social challenges...
Keith Latham, Michigan State University and Mary Faith Marshall, University of Virginia
Assisted reproductive technologies are medical procedures that...
Erasing or replacing errors in a patient’s genetic code can treat...
David Liu, Harvard University
Genetic diseases can have devastating consequences for the people who inherit them. In recent years,...
‘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...
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...
Ethicists: We need more flexible tools for evaluating gene-edited food
Christopher J. Preston, The University of Montana and Trine Antonsen, University of Tromsø
Is there now a way to genetically engineer crops to create food...
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...
Genetically modified mosquitoes may be best weapon for curbing disease transmission
Jason Rasgon, Pennsylvania State University
Mosquitoes are some of the most deadly creatures on the planet. They carry viruses, bacteria and parasites, which they transmit...
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...
