African countries turn toward home-engineered gene edited crops to ensure regional acceptance

African countries turn toward home-engineered gene edited crops to ensure regional acceptance

Nature | 
Molecular biologist Steven Runo once thought that his team would make history as the first to plant gene-edited seeds in African soil ...
Breakthrough CRISPR treatment for sickle cell anemia up for FDA approval

Breakthrough CRISPR treatment for sickle cell anemia up for FDA approval

Nature | 
Advisers to the US regulatory agency will examine the safety profile of a CRISPR-based treatment for sickle-cell disease ...
Ethical issues aside, CRISPR babies are too risky

Ethical issues aside, CRISPR babies are too risky

Nature | 
While society grapples with the social and ethical implications of heritable genome editing, technical obstacles still abound ...
Using synthetic biology to rewire T-cells to fight cancer

Using synthetic biology to rewire T-cells to fight cancer

With a slew of tools to trick out immune cells, researchers are expanding the repertoire of CAR-T therapies ...
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Autoimmune disorders: Here’s how the Black Death altered evolution and left permanent scars on survivors’ descendants

When the Black Death swept through northern Africa and Eurasia in the mid-fourteenth century, it killed up to half of ...
What will happen next in long-running dispute over CRISPR patent rights?

What will happen next in long-running dispute over CRISPR patent rights?

A long-running dispute between two groups that claim to have invented the revolutionary CRISPR–Cas9 gene-editing tool is likely to remain ...
Can vaccines prevent long COVID?

Can vaccines prevent long COVID?

Vaccines reduce the risk of long COVID by lowering the chances of contracting COVID-19 in the first place. But for ...
Who owns your genes? Book review of ‘The Genome Defense’

Who owns your genes? Book review of ‘The Genome Defense’

In 2009, [lawyer Chris] Hansen, a veteran of civil-rights cases at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in New York ...
Engineered tomatoes kill whiteflies by ‘silencing’ gene that protects them from pesticides

Engineered tomatoes kill whiteflies by ‘silencing’ gene that protects them from pesticides

A pernicious agricultural pest owes some of its success to a gene pilfered from its plant host millions of years ...
Optimizing vaccine rollout: Should we be concerned about taking possibly less effective — but easier to distribute — COVID shots like AstraZeneca's and J&J's?

Optimizing vaccine rollout: Should we be concerned about taking possibly less effective — but easier to distribute — COVID shots like AstraZeneca’s and J&J’s?

Yusuff Adebayo Adebisi knows that a vaccine that offers 70% protection against COVID-19 could be a valuable tool against the ...
Why COVID death counts are not rising as quickly as confirmed cases

Why COVID death counts are not rising as quickly as confirmed cases

Charlotte Summers, an intensive-care physician at the University of Cambridge, UK, says that data collected by the country’s National Health ...
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When CRISPR gene editing falls short: ‘Base editing’ might treat disorders on the maternal line in mitochondrial DNA

[A] technique — which builds on a super-precise version of gene editing called base editing — could allow researchers to ...
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‘Search and destroy’: Precision stem cell treatments could be safer against blood cancers

Scientists are experimenting with ways to selectively target the body’s blood-making cells for destruction. Early studies in animals and people ...
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‘It’s unsettling’: Cancer cells use the body’s nerves to attack the brain, studies suggest

Tumour cells can plug into—and feed off—the brain’s complex network of neurons, according to a trio of studies. This nefarious ...
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EU food-testing labs must track unapproved CRISPR crop imports—but there’s no easy way to do it

A landmark European court ruling that made gene-edited crops subject to the same stringent regulations as other genetically modified organisms ...
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Scientific, social and ethical barriers must be overcome before the world is ready for CRISPR babies, researchers say

Nature asked researchers and other stakeholders what hurdles remain before heritable gene editing could become acceptable as a clinical tool ...
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Animal gene-editing researchers leaving US to escape FDA’s ‘regulatory confusion’

In a few weeks, reproductive biologist Charles Long will travel from Texas to São Paulo, Brazil in search of collaborators ...
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In-body gene editing successful in first trial, targeting Hunter syndrome

A therapy that edits genes directly in the human body might be safe, suggest early findings from the first trial ...
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Landmark cancer tumor drug Keytruda hampered by glitches

A landmark cancer drug approved last year seemed to herald a long-anticipated change in the treatment of some tumours: with ...
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Glory of plants in 3D: CRISPR gene-editing, imaging technology unlock genetic secrets

Advances in imaging technology — allowing researchers to peer inside plant structures in 3D — mean that biologists are seeking ...
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Combatants prepping for next skirmish in battle over CRISPR patents

The long-running battle over US patents for CRISPR–Cas9 gene editing continues. On 25 October, the Broad Institute of Cambridge, Massachusetts, filed ...
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Ancient corn genome could unlock secrets of crop diversity and adaptation

[Kelly Swarts, a quantitative geneticist, and her] team sequenced the genomes of fifteen 1,900-year-old maize cobs found in [a Utah ...
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DNA movies? Gene editor CRISPR used to store ‘movie’ in bacteria

Internet users have a variety of format options in which to store their movies, and biologists have now joined the ...
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How DNA from 100-year-old tumor could bolster treatment of rare childhood cancers

Deep in the basement archives of London's Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children reside the patient records that cancer researcher ...
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Immune cells that attack tumors may dictate the success or failure of therapy

Detailed maps of the immune cells that surround tumours could suggest fresh therapeutic targets, point out biological markers that can ...
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CRISPR gene editing calls into question results of older genetics studies

[Jason Sheltzer, a cancer biologist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York] and his team joined an expanding club ...
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Pre-Cancer Genome Atlas: Tracking tumors to determine why they turn from benign to dangerous

At the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) annual meeting in Washington DC, researchers gathered on April 2 to discuss ...
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Drones and robots revolutionizing plant breeding, combating climate change

The use of drones and robots is also on the rise as researchers pursue the ‘quantified plant’ — one in ...
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