BioEdge.com  Michael Cook  11-18-17 With the rapid advance in gene-editing technology, the time has come to consider how to ethical trials, according to an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine. Bryan Cwik, a philosopher at Portland State University, in Oregon, zeroes in on some u...

Science Daily  UT Southwestern Medical Center  November 17, 2017 UT Southwestern molecular biologists today report the unexpected finding that selectively deleting a stem cell transcription factor in adult mice promotes rec...

Science Daily  Brigham & Women’s Hospital  November 17, 2017 Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is known to cause memory loss and cognitive decline, but other functions of the brain can remain intact. The reasons cells in some brain reg...

The Guardian  Ian Sample Science Editor 9-28-17 Scientists have used the technique, also known as ‘base editing’, for the first time in human embryos to change a single letter in a faulty gene. Researchers in China have used a procedur...

CWR  Sister Renee Mirkes 9-25-17 If you’ve been following science headlines, you know that the CRISPR revolution is a real speedboat, clipping along at a breakneck pace. The aim of this essay is to equip this CRISPR ship with moral ballast befor...

BioEdge.org  by Xavier Symons | 28 Oct 2017 Ectogenesis, or the gestation of fetus in an environment ex utero, was once an idea confined to the realm of science fiction. But research involving the incubation of premature lambs in artificial gestation bags has made pundits think that fetal...

NCER President Carol Szczepaniak, recently had the opportunity to present at the 4th Annual Biopharmaceutical Research & Development Symposium at the University Nebraska Medical Center for the Department of Pharmc...

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...

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...

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...