Science Daily May 29, 2017 Columbia University Medical Center As CRISPR-Cas9 starts to move into clinical trials, a new study published in Nature Methods has found that the gene-editing technology can introduce hundreds of unintended mutations into the genome. “We feel it...
Monthly Archives: July, 2017
The Fertility Doctor Trying to Commercialize Three-Parent Babies
Bioethics.com June 26,2017 MIT Technology Review A U.S. fertility doctor has started a company with a provocative vision for older women: become pregnant by having their DNA shifted into a young woman’s egg. The company, Darwin Life, was quietly established last year by John Zhang, als...
Restoring Sight: CRISPR Could Reprogram Cells to Treat Retinitis pigmentosa
Genetic Literacy Project 4/28/17 University of California San Diego Using the gene-editing tool CRISPR/Cas9, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Shiley Eye Institute at UC San Diego Health, have reprogrammed mutated rod photoreceptors to become function...
China Unveils Gene Technology to Create Superhumans with Hyper-Muscular Test-tube Dogs
Express.co.uk by Rebecca Flood July 18, 2017 Armies of super-soldiers were a step closer to reality today after China announced it was genetically engineering hyper-muscular super-dogs. The dogs, which are test tube bred in a lab, have twice the muscle mass of their natural counterparts an...
First Human Embryos Edited in the U.S.
Rewriting Life by Steve Connor July 26, 2017 A still from a video shows gene-editing chemicals being injected into a human egg at the moment of fertilization. Scientists used the technique to correct DNA errors present in the father’s sperm.OSHU The first known attempt at cr...