If you could ‘design’ your own child, would you? – New Zealand Herald
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If you could ‘design’ your own child, would you?
New Zealand Herald But supporters of synthetic biology talk up huge potential long-term benefits. We could, they claim, potentially edit genes and build new ones to eradicate all hereditary diseases. With genetic alterations, we might be able to withstand anthrax attacks … |
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If you could ‘design’ your own child, would you?
New Zealand Herald But supporters of synthetic biology talk up huge potential long-term benefits. We could, they claim, potentially edit genes and build new ones to eradicate all hereditary diseases. With genetic alterations, we might be able to withstand anthrax attacks … |
UC Berkeley |
How Powerful is CRISPR?
Newswise (press release) Newswise — “Good morning, doctor, I am here for my gene editing appointment.” In the future, could this be a greeting heard in physician offices around the world? With the introduction of CRISPR technology, genetic material can now be more easily and … Aug. 16-17 CRISPRcon to focus on societal issues of gene editingUC Berkeley |
The San Diego Union-Tribune |
Time for public debate, says gene editing star Jennifer Doudna
The San Diego Union-Tribune “It’s important to for people to appreciate that this is a powerful technology that has the potential to do a lot of good, to solve real world problems not only in clinical medicine but also in agriculture and synthetic biology,” Doudna said. Doudna … |
MIMS General News (Hong Kong) (registration) (blog) |
American scientists use CRISPR to modify human embryos
MIMS General News (Hong Kong) (registration) (blog) Led by embryologist, Dr Shoukhrat Mitalipov – a researcher at the university – the team used the gene-editing technique CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) to introduce gene-editing chemicals to single-cell embryos. |
CBS Philly |
Teen Battles Brain Cancer, Raises Money For Treatment
CBS Philly PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — This is a mission to raise money specifically for immunotherapy research. It’s been called a game changer, the next frontier in treating, even curing cancer. A New Jersey teenager is hoping a new immunotherapy works for him and … |