6 Deaf Children Can Now Hear After a Single Injection
To get the new genetic material into cells, they engineered harmless viruses to carry it. Doctors carefully injected a tiny amount of liquid containing the viruses into a part of …
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Scientists Will Test a Cancer-Hunting mRNA Treatment
To keep IL-12 inside tumors, scientists at Strand designed a set of instructions called a genetic circuit that tells the mRNA to make the inflammatory protein only when it detects …
A Gene-Edited Pig Liver Was Attached to a Person—and Worked for 3 Days
That has led researchers to genetically alter pigs in an attempt to make their organs a better match. The biotech company that bred the pig for the Penn study, eGenesis …
A Gel Injected Into the Scrotum Could Be the Next Male Contraceptive
The purpose of the current trial is to assess the gel’s safety and longevity, not how well it prevents pregnancy. Participants were asked to use a back-up form of birth …
Tech, biotech layoffs jolt Bay Area job market as staff cutbacks widen
Tech and biotech companies have revealed plans to slash the jobs of hundreds more of their Bay Area workers, capping off a brutal year for employment reductions in the technology …
The Plan to Put Pig Genes in Soy Beans for Tastier Fake Meat
For Gastón Paladini, pork is a family affair. In 1923, his great-grandfather Don Juan Paladini moved from Italy to Santa Fe, Argentina, where he started putting a South American twist …
20 Things That Made the World a Better Place in 2023
It’s been hard recently to think about anything other than the wars and humanitarian crises raging around the world. Climate change has left its mark in what was almost certainly …
The Race to Put Brain Implants in People Is Heating Up
In September, Elon Musk’s brain-implant company Neuralink announced the much-anticipated news that it would start recruiting volunteers for a clinical trial to test its device. Known as a brain-computer interface, …
The Age of Crispr Medicine Is Here
So far, only nine centers across the US are currently offering Casgevy, which may limit who gets access to it. Vertex says the number of participating sites will grow in …
In a World First, a Patient’s Antibody Cells Were Just Genetically Engineered
Our B cells help prevent us from getting sick. Their job is to make antibodies, immune system proteins that fight off viruses and other foreign invaders. And they make a …