Nature.comSynthetic biology: Enter the living machineNature.comLife became a machine. To many, including me, this was a profound moment: the beginning of the field of synthetic biology. Now an international enterprise with the potential to transform ou… Continue reading
Genetic Literacy ProjectA new tool for genetically engineering the oldest branch of lifeScience DailyCRISPR, short for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, began as an immune defense system in archaea and bacteria. By identifying … Continue reading
KCUR |
Kansas Stem Cell Center Close To First Clinical Trial
KCUR Buddhadeb Dawn, right, executive director of the Midwest Stem Cell Therapy Center, talks with Rep. Les Osterman, far left, and David Prentice, center, of Charlotte Lozier Institute. Dawn provided an update on the center’s research Tuesday in Topeka. |
Good Fruit Grower |
CRISPR and the mutant moths — Video
Good Fruit Grower Kelly Archer, right, brings freshly laid codling moth eggs to Laura Willett, left, so Willett can inject a solution as part of a gene editing experiment at the USDA ARS lab in Wapato, Washington, in February. The cell walls surrounding the eggs become … |
MIT Technology Review |
This Lab-in-a-Box Could Make Gene Therapy Affordable
MIT Technology Review Jennifer Adair carried out her first gene therapy experiment several years ago. A cancer treatment, it involved collecting blood from a patient, and then adding to these cells a new strand of DNA—a gene—that would protect them from a powerful … |
MIT Technology Review |
This Lab-in-a-Box Could Make Gene Therapy Less Elitist – MIT …
MIT Technology Review Genetic repairs are curing patients—but only at a few elite centers. |