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For The First Time, CRISPR Has Been Used to Dramatically Change Flower Colour – ScienceAlert

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2017-09-09 NEWS

Independent Australia

For The First Time, CRISPR Has Been Used to Dramatically Change Flower Colour
ScienceAlert
We’ve never seen the CRISPR gene-editing tool used like this before. Scientists have turned a Japanese garden plant from violet to white by disrupting a single gene – yet more evidence of the huge potential that CRISPR holds. The modified flower is the …
Think for Yourself: CRISPRIndependent Australia

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2017-09-09 NEWS

Astrobiology, Synthetic Biology, and the Future of Life
Space Ref (press release)
What is life? How might life have emerged on Earth or on other worlds? And how might we engineer the future of life—what might we make life to be? Astrobiologists and synthetic biologists grapple with these questions every day. To further explore the …

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2017-09-09 NEWS

Astrobiology, Synthetic Biology, and the Future of Life
Space Ref (press release)
What is life? How might life have emerged on Earth or on other worlds? And how might we engineer the future of life—what might we make life to be? Astrobiologists and synthetic biologists grapple with these questions every day. To further explore the …

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2017-09-08 NEWS

Fred Hutch News Service

Teacher, mom — and living proof of principle
Fred Hutch News Service
Tiffany O’Keefe, photographed recently with her three children, participated in a clinical trial of an experimental immunotherapy to treat her advanced synovial sarcoma. While her cancer is still present, it has shrunk significantly since the trial