Researchers expanded the lifespan of yeast by 80% with a simple genetic tweak. Could this work in humans too?

Researchers expanded lifespan of yeast by 80% with a simple genetic tweak. Could this work in humans too?

Human lifespans have increased throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, but those increases are slowing down ...
Tweaking crops to prevent disease and reduce pesticide use — a CRISPR solution

Tweaking crops to prevent disease and reduce pesticide use — a CRISPR solution

Applying new CRISPR-based technology to a broad agricultural need, researchers at the University of California San Diego have set their ...
Reducing insecticide use with CRISPR: Gene editing could naturally rollback pesticide resistance evolution in disease-carrying insects

Reducing insecticide use with CRISPR: Gene editing could naturally rollback pesticide resistance evolution in disease-carrying insects

Insecticides play a central role in efforts to counter global impacts of mosquito-spread malaria and other diseases, which cause an ...
CRISPR gene drives have been deployed in plants — opening the way to breeding resilient crops better able to withstand drought and disease

CRISPR gene drives have been deployed in plants — opening the way to breeding resilient crops better able to withstand drought and disease

With a goal of breeding resilient crops that are better able to withstand drought and disease, University of California San ...
Video: Here’s how synthetic flies could become a major tool in the quest to control insect-borne diseases

Video: Here’s how synthetic flies could become a major tool in the quest to control insect-borne diseases

CRISPR-based technologies offer enormous potential to benefit human health and safety, from disease eradication to fortified food supplies. As one ...
Why did humans survive while our Denisovan and Neanderthal cousins died out? Just one gene could have made all the difference

Why did humans survive while our Denisovan and Neanderthal cousins died out? Just one gene could have made all the difference

Stem cells, the self-renewing precursors of other cell types, can be used to build brain organoids [or] "mini brains" in ...
Advanced cancers in humans linked to rogue evolutionary mutation

Advanced cancers in humans linked to rogue evolutionary mutation

University of California San Diego | 
Compared to chimpanzees, our closest evolutionary cousins, humans are particularly prone to developing advanced carcinomas — the type of tumors ...
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Gene drive system that can eliminate many transmissible diseases, from Zika to Yellow Fever, likely now can be done with little or no risk

University of California San Diego | 
Although the newest gene drives have been proven to spread efficiently as designed in laboratory settings, concerns have been raised ...
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‘On-off’ immune switch in plants could lead to more disease-resistant crops

Keini Dressano, Alisa Huffaker and their colleagues at the University of California San Diego's Division of Biological Sciences have discovered ...
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Brain’s ‘ready-to-encode’ mode helps us create memories

What happens in the hippocampus even before people attempt to form memories may impact whether they remember. A new study ...
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New CRISPR gene-drive system could crack down on antibiotic resistance in animal agriculture

University of California San Diego | 
Taking advantage of powerful advances in CRISPR gene editing, scientists at the University of California San Diego have set their ...
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First gene drive developed for crop pest targets invasive fruit fly that damages berries

Biologists at the University of California San Diego have developed a method of manipulating the genes of an agricultural pest ...
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How non-coding ‘junk’ DNA can influence cancer growth

Most of the human genome — 98 percent — is made up of DNA but doesn’t actually encode genes, the ...
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GMO algae as food source and renewable fuel: First EPA-approved field trial completed

Scientists at the University of California San Diego and Sapphire Energy have successfully completed the first outdoor field trial sanctioned ...
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Restoring sight: CRISPR could reprogram cells to treat retinitis pigmentosa

Using the gene-editing tool CRISPR/Cas9, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Shiley Eye Institute at ...
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Engineered marine algae could expand biofuel production

Nanowerk LLCBioengineered marine algae expands environments where biofuels can be ...Phys.OrgThe ability to genetically transform marine algae into a biofuel ...
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