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Finding ‘beating heart cadavers’ — That’s what’s needed to fuel gene-edited organ research

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The University of Pennsylvania connected a pig liver to a brain-dead person in an experiment that lasted for three days ...
How Casgevy came to be: How researchers found gene editing targets for newly-approved sickle cell drug

How Casgevy came to be: How researchers found gene editing targets for newly-approved sickle cell drug

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The world’s first commercial gene-editing treatment is set to start changing the lives of people with sickle-cell disease ...
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Gene therapy treatment restores hearing to five children in China. Will the results last?

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After deafness treatment, Yiyi can hear her mother and dance to the music. But why is it so noisy at ...
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Can we cut cost and pain of IVF? Start-up CEO tries out own company’s alternative way to ‘mature’ human eggs in lab dish instead of inside bodies

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While life expectancy is getting longer—it has been slowly rising for a hundred years—that’s not true of women’s reproductive life ...
A CRISPR gene-editing tool has been added to three people with HIV, the virus that causes AIDs. Is it working?

A CRISPR gene-editing tool has been added to three people with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Is it working?

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CRISPR is being used in an experimental effort to eliminate the virus that causes AIDS. The result is unknown ...
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Brain-computer interface: Elon Musk’s Neuralink venture hopes to dramatically increase communication. What’s he up to?

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Elon Musk claimed that sticking electrodes in people’s heads is going to lead to a huge increase in the rate ...
'College prep might start in a test tube': Should we test embryos for genetic markers related to intelligence? A plurality of Americans say ‘yes’

‘College prep might start in a test tube’: Should we test embryos for genetic markers related to intelligence? A plurality of Americans say ‘yes’

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Imagine that you were provided no-cost fertility treatment and also offered a free DNA test to gauge which of those ...
On the edge of science and ethics: This startup wants to create human embryos to harvest tissue for transplants

On the edge of science and ethics: This startup wants to create human embryos to harvest tissue for transplants

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In a search for novel forms of longevity medicine, a biotech company based in Israel says it intends to create ...
How one CRISPR-tweaked gene could permanently lower cholesterol

How one CRISPR-tweaked gene could permanently lower cholesterol

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A volunteer in New Zealand has become the first person to undergo DNA editing in order to lower their blood ...
Chinese scientist He Jiankui, creator of first 'CRISPR children’, released from jail

Chinese scientist He Jiankui, creator of first ‘CRISPR children’, released from jail

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The daring Chinese biophysicist who created the world’s first gene-edited children has been set free after three years in a ...
Going bald? Scientists have reprogrammed cells to grow hair on mice. Are humans next?

Going bald? Scientists have reprogrammed cells to grow hair on mice. Are humans next?

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Biologists at several startups are applying the latest advances in genetic engineering to the age-old problem of baldness, creating new ...
Could donated blood be transformed into lab-made replacement eggs for infertile couples? Silicon Valley is trying

Could donated blood be transformed into lab-made replacement eggs for infertile couples? Silicon Valley is trying

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Conception is the largest commercial venture pursuing what’s called in vitro gametogenesis, which refers to turning adult cells into gametes—sperm ...
BrainGate: Opening the door for paralyzed patients to use computers

BrainGate: Opening the door for paralyzed patients to use computers

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In a 12-by-20-foot room at a skilled-nursing facility in Menlo Park, California, researchers are testing the next evolution of the ...
Can biotechnology extend your life? A Russian-born billionaire is betting he can make it happen

Can biotechnology extend your life? A Russian-born billionaire is betting he can make it happen

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[Yuri] Milner is a Russian-born billionaire who made a fortune on Facebook and Mail.ru and previously started the glitzy black-tie ...
Human embryo research restrictions: Scientists move to drop 14-day limit on research

Human embryo research restrictions: Scientists move to drop 14-day limit on research

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For the last 40 years, the rule, which is law in some countries and a guideline in others, has served ...
Lab-made embryos? Israeli researchers grow mice in artificial wombs

Lab-made embryos? Israeli researchers grow mice in artificial wombs

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[Israeli] researchers have grown mice in an artificial womb for as long as 11 or 12 days, about half the ...
Drug development revolution: Messenger RNA has taken the lead in the COVID response - and that’s only the beginning

Drug development revolution: Messenger RNA has taken the lead in the COVID response – and that’s only the beginning

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Unlike traditional vaccines, which use live viruses, dead ones, or bits of the shells that viruses come cloaked in to ...
Pfizer vaccine data offer hope for a return to normalcy

Pfizer vaccine data offer hope for a return to normalcy

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[A]dvisors to the US Food and Drug Administration voted in favor of emergency authorization for Pfizer’s covid-19 shot, and the data in ...
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As AquaBounty readies US rollout of GMO salmon, scientists hope for jumpstart of biotech animal research

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A genetically modified salmon will become the first GM food animal to go on sale in the US, according to ...
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Out-of-the-box vaccine candidate: Nasal drops of a very slow-growing, synthetic-biology developed version of COVID. It just might work

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[S]ynthetic biology has led to a way to create a weakened form of the pandemic coronavirus that causes covid-19. Although ...
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Limited COVID herd immunity may be developing in hardest hit areas, but it may last only months

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Millions of US residents have been infected by the virus that causes covid-19, and at least 160,000 are dead. One ...
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DIY COVID-19 vaccine? George Church, other scientists experimenting with home brewed versions

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Nearly 200 covid-19 vaccines are in development, and some three dozen are at various stages of human testing. But in ...
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Why controlling COVID-19 outbreaks could make it harder to test a vaccine

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The aim is a vaccine by January, and money is no object. On May 21, the US said it would ...
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‘It’s going to be a project’: Looking at unconventional efforts to ramp up our coronavirus testing ability

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Right now, [coronavirus] gene tests—the most accurate kind—are run only in labs or on special hospital instruments. But [biotech entrepreneur ...
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Here’s how long the coronavirus survives on common surfaces

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A big question in the outbreak of Covid-19, which has already infected more than 110,000, is how the germ that ...
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Tracking the coronavirus—and failed containment efforts—by digging through its genome

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In the unprecedented outbreak of a new coronavirus sweeping the world, the germ’s genetic material may ultimately tell the story ...
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Creating a synthetic version of the coronavirus fuels hopes of treatments — and conspiracy theories

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Synthetic versions of the deadly virus could help test treatments. But what are the risks when viruses can be synthetized ...
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Modern love or eugenics? Genetics pioneer George Church’s dating app matches DNA to ‘wipe out’ inherited disease

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George Church made a passing comment about a genetic dating app his lab was developing that he said could wipe ...
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