Dr. Alison Todd’s Inventions May Save Your Life
“At the risk of sounding arrogant, I would say one of my greatest and ongoing challenges stems from being ahead of my time,” Dr. Todd explains. “My vision for medicine …
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New Jersey Keeps Newborn DNA for 23 Years. Parents Are Suing
The Institute for Justice, a libertarian nonprofit, and the parents behind the lawsuit claim there’s no reason for the state to keep samples that long. “The New Jersey Department of …
New Trials Aim to Restore Hearing in Deaf Children—With Gene Therapy
While the Novartis trial was happening, Lustig and others were working on ways to restore hearing in genetic forms of hearing loss. In 2019, Lustig and his collaborators showed that …
A Groundbreaking Human Brain Cell Atlas Just Dropped
Today, an international team of researchers shared an extraordinarily detailed atlas of human brain cells, mapping its staggering diversity of neurons. The atlas was published as part of a massive …
DNA Drives Help Identify Missing People. It’s a Privacy Nightmare
That’s why Natalie Ram, a law professor at the University of Maryland, cautions that, although families of missing loved ones may be desperate to get answers, it matters which DNA …
Crispr Pioneer Jennifer Doudna Has the Guts to Take On the Microbiome
OK, you’ve lost me. What do you mean by “bring in a molecule”? It literally just means allowing a molecule into a cell. And if that molecule is a gene …
Unveiling the Enigmatic Genes Behind Your Life’s Sustenance | WIRED
When it came to the substantial number that were unknown, the team conducted one more study, using the best understood (at the genetic level) organism of all: Drosophila melanogaster. These …
The Potential of Viruses: From Cancer Cure to Humanity’s Threat
Gideon Lichfield: OK, but let me play the synthetic biology devil’s advocate for a second. Lauren Goode: OK, OK. Gideon Lichfield: When you have kids, you are throwing the genetic …
Challenging Legal, Ethical, and Biological Concepts of an ‘Embryo’: Exploring the Impact of Embryo Models
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Meanwhile, Hanna’s team in Israel was growing mouse embryo models in a similar way, as they described in a paper in Cell that was published shortly before the paper from …
The DNA of Every Embryo Holds Traces of an Ancient Battle
The new paper is the result of herculean computational analyses, involving researchers in Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom, to better understand the role ancient retroviruses play in early embryonic …