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Genetic engineering, CRISPR and food: What the ‘revolution’ will … – Genetic Literacy Project

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2018-01-24 NEWS

Genetic Literacy Project

Genetic engineering, CRISPR and food: What the ‘revolution’ will …
Genetic Literacy Project
Editor’s note: This is the first in a four-part series examining genetic engineering’s impact on our lives. The next installment will examine the role of gene editing in medicine; the third will look at regulatory obstacles blunting the potential of

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‘Bioengineering will make it possible to regenerate tissues and organs’
Siliconrepublic.com
Others include collecting and managing big data on individual patients; and creating inexpensive and rapid diagnostic devices, such as a lab-on-a-chip able to detect small levels of chemicals in the blood or biological fluids. Improved delivery systems

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How Stem Cells Could Make Elderly Blood Vessels ‘Younger’
Daily Beast
“Rampant” and “elderly” are words rarely used in the same sentence, unless we are talking of the percentage of people over 65 years old worldwide. Life expectancy has considerably increased, but it is still unknown how many of those years are going to

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A brave new world of robot chemists and ‘synthesiser farms’ awaits
Chemistry World
… prohibitively expensive for individual labs and operating them often takes a lot of getting used to. ‘Automation has to offer a simplified tool so that the resistance to starting using it is not that high,’ comments Nevado. Despite these hindrances