Podcast: Researchers across the globe are racing to create the first artificial eggs and sperm, allowing anyone of any sex or age to have genetically-related babies

Podcast: Inside global race to create first artificial eggs and sperm, enabling people of any age or sex to have genetically-related children

NPR | 
Get a glimpse into the global race to create the first artificial human embryos to see how the competition is ...
CRISPR gene editing tackles yet another health scourge: High cholesterol

CRISPR gene editing tackles yet another health scourge: High cholesterol

NPR | 
Study shows that gene-editing technology can be used to successfully treat a genetic disorder that increases the risk of heart ...
Lab-grown human eggs: Startup sims to transform stem cells into eggs, helping infertile people have babies at any age

Lab-grown human eggs: Startup aims to transform stem cells into eggs, helping infertile people have babies at any age

NPR | 
Conception is trying to accelerate, and eventually commercialize, a field of biomedical research known as in vitro gametogenesis (IVG) ...
‘Children of Omicron’: What public health threats lie ahead as COVID evolves?

‘Children of Omicron’: What public health threats lie ahead as COVID evolves?

NPR | 
Throughout the pandemic, the virus that causes COVID-19 has been evolving fast, blindsiding the world with one variant after another ...
Will the fast-spreading Omicron variant BA.2 sideline momentum to near-normal return?

Will the fast-spreading Omicron variant BA.2 sideline momentum to near-normal return?

NPR | 
As the omicron surge continues to decline in the U.S., infectious disease experts are keeping a close eye on an ...
CRISPR milestone: Crippling transthyretin amyloidosis disease now treatable through gene editing, paving way for addressing other genetic diseases

CRISPR milestone: Crippling transthyretin amyloidosis disease now treatable through gene editing, paving way for addressing other genetic diseases

NPR | 
[65-year-old Patrick] Doherty found out he had a rare, but devastating inherited disease — known as transthyretin amyloidosis — that ...
‘It would be huge to see my granddaughter’: In an attempt to cure blindness, scientists use CRISPR to edit DNA inside patients' bodies

‘It would be huge to see my granddaughter’: In an attempt to cure blindness, scientists use CRISPR to edit DNA inside patients’ bodies

NPR | 
Carlene Knight would love to do things that most people take for granted, such as read books, drive a car, ...
18 months later, first sickle cell patient treated with CRISPR is still pain free

18 months later, first sickle cell patient treated with CRISPR is still pain free

NPR | 
[35-year-old Victoria] Gray is the first person in the United States to be successfully treated for a genetic disorder, [sickle ...

Genome sequencing for babies brings knowledge and conflicts

WNYC | 
Genome sequencing deciphers an individual's entire genetic code. The price of doing this has been dropping quickly, raising the possibility ...
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