Polo’s Future: How Gene-Edited Horses Are Changing the Game
Gene-editing technology has taken its first bold steps into the arena of polo, as the world’s first…
GLP podcast: Making babies in the lab? The messy ethics of embryo selection
If you could select the traits your children would have before they were born, would you do it?…
Scientists Engineer Yeast to Create Honey Bee Superfood – Colonies Grew 15-Fold
Bees feeding on a synthetic pollen substitute – credit, Caroline Wood, Oxford U news A study team from…
Gene-Therapy Treatment Of Infant With Rare Genetic Condition Successful In World First » TwistedSifter
Pexels When baby KJ was born with a rare disease, which could cause a potentially fatal amount of…
New generation of CRISPR shows safer path to treating genetic diseases
A new generation of CRISPR technology developed at UNSW Sydney offers a safer path to treating genetic diseases…
Will China’s new chromosome editing tool unlock new wave of genetic advances?
A group of Chinese scientists has overcome a challenge that stumped biologists for decades by developing a new…
Decoding macrophage immune responses with gene editing and machine learning
Fighting off pathogens is a tour de force that must happen with speed and precision. A team of…
Diabetic Man With Gene-Edited Cells Produces His Own Insulin—No Transplant Drugs Required
A new case study offers a tantalizing glimpse into the potential future of transplantation medicine. A man with…
Scientists rewrite life’s code to create virus-resistant bacteria
In a landmark feat of genetic engineering, researchers at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge…
Researchers pinpoint PRMT5 as a promising target for cancer drugs
A potential target for experimental drugs that block PRMT5 – a naturally occurring enzyme some tumors rely more…
Prime editing corrects a childhood genetic disease in mice
Alternating hemiplegia of childhood (AHC) is a rare, one-in-a-million genetic disease that affects kids. Most cases are…