Using patents to restrict harmful applications of CRISPRBioEdgeThe new CRISPR gene-editing technology is an incredible tool, but it could be used for ethically-troubling procedures like human eugenics, modification of human germline cells, genetically-… Continue reading
BioEdge |
Stem cells 1: ‘Be patient,” says Nobel laureate Shinya Yamanaka
BioEdge Japanese researcher Shinya Yamanaka won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2012 for discovering that mature cells can revert to stem cells. These “induced pluripotent stem cells” can, theoretically, become any cell in the body. This was greeted not only as … |
Variety |
Sundance Film Review: ‘Axolotl Overkill’
Variety How much is this eternal, futureless, and absolutely self-centered individual to be envied as an expression of ultimate liberation, and how much should her suspended–animation existence be pitied as a trap? The axolotls Mifti encounters are, after all … |
RIABiz |
DOL rule will be undone, in a cruel twist, by the Department of Labor — essentially by a Trump order to cut red …
RIABiz Sources disagree semantically about whether the DOL, based on this development, is dead, delayed or in some sort of cryogenic suspended animation if what we’re hearing out of Washington is right. What is clear, if this Texas court angle is true, is … |
Brisbane Times |
Examining The Economy That President-Elect Trump Is Inheriting
KCBX MARTIN: OK. NPR’s Scott Horsley reporting there from the White House, a place in suspended animation, as you have put it as we await the next president of the United States. Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 45th president. You can stay with us for … Donald Trump Has Plans To Hit The Ground RunningWUWM |