A Conversation with CRISPR-Cas9 Inventors Charpentier and Doudna
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Congrats to Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier for winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2020. The idea to edit DNA…
Congrats to Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier for winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2020. The idea to edit DNA…
BY VIVEK WADHWASource inkUsually good for a conspiracy theory or two, U.S. President Donald Trump has suggested that the virus…
BY VIVEK WADHWASource LinkUsually good for a conspiracy theory or two, U.S. President Donald Trump has suggested that the virus…
by Vera Lúcia Raposo, Ph.D. Last December it was made public that He Jiankui was sentenced to 3 years in prison and a fine of…
El libro “A crack in creation” (una grieta en la creación), ha sido escrito por la catedrática Jennifer Doudna y el Dr. Samuel…
by Christopher Thomas Scott, Ph.D. and Cynthia Selin, Ph.D. In the wake of reports that a Chinese biophysicist, He Jiankui…
A scientist claims to have created genetically modified humans. This should be of grave concernThe fierce global controversy…
Yeyang Su invites Impact Ethics readers to mark their calendars for the second International Summit on Human Genome Editing. …
In the quest for CRISPR supremacy, China just won another first. Last week, a team used CRISPR-Cas9 to correct a single…
Scientists now have the ability to manipulate the DNA of human embryos in ways that could allow them to eliminate genetic…
By Jonathan…
For over three decades, scientists have had the ability to alter the genomes of other species of animals. Using viruses to…
It's become too late to ask whether or not we should edit the human germline; we can now only ask how the experiments will…
Gene Editing in the…
Is gene editing ethical? Will gene editing become a part of everyday medicine? If you bring up the subject of gene editing, the…
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A new gene-editing experiment explores human development. With this comes new ethical questions: How do scientists acquire…
Gene editing has been in the news since around 2013. Here I want to focus on one of the most recent advances which made me…
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Science changes over time. The collective knowledge of a field builds upon itself as new techniques allow us to ask new…
Science changes over time. The collective knowledge of a field builds upon itself as new techniques allow us to ask new…
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. In the film Gattaca, a couple desiring to have a child visits their neighborhood geneticist: Geneticist…
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Scientists have edited a human embryo, but we’re not in scary scifi territory by a long…
On est en train de faire tout un foin depuis 48 heures autour de ce court article qui vient de paraître dans Nature Methods et…
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In terms of ethics, studies involving human subjects are constantly questioned. Many people fear the consequences of "designer…
In 1899, the German-American scientist Jacques Loeb engineered the asexual reproduction of sea urchins through artificial…
The big biotech controversy of last year was over the ethics of using CRISPR to edit human embryos – something which a team of…
(Photo: turkletom/Flickr)When a team of Chinese scientists announced last spring that they had edited the genes of human…
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Los avances científicos nos proporcionan nuevos conocimientos acerca de la naturaleza y nos ofrecen nuevas posibilidades.
Imagine a gene-editing tool that is more cost-efficient, faster, easier, and more precise than previous techniques. Imagine…
Health and…
A new year has arrived, and it’s going to be an amazing one for biomedical research. But before diving into our first “new…
Genetic modification was not invented in 2015. DNA was edited before CRISPR/Cas 9, just as books were printed before the…
Last year, inspired by Nature’s magazine annual feature, I started to highlight the people who, in my humble opinion, made the…
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Ecco le dieci scoperte scientifiche del 2015 Semplice, efficace, sicura. Ed estremamente promettente, al punto da poter “sconvo…
By Peter…
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by Christopher Thomas Scott In April 2015 a team of Chinese scientists reported in a little known journal, Protein
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Un deuxième billet rapide après « Tout se qui est possible sera-t-il fait ?« , basé sur un article dans Nature que je viens de…
At the American Society of Human Genetics meeting in October, CRISPR-Cas9 inventors Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier…
Il y a une conférence en cours sur les aspects éthiques de l’édition de gènes et génomes humains. Ca a notamment été couvert…
A summit of experts from around the world is meeting in Washington to consider the scientific, ethical and governance issues…
Gene editing allows us to eliminate any misspellings, introduce beneficial natural variants, or perhaps cut out or insert new…
I had planned to blast last Thursday’s news of the use of gene-editing to save a British baby from aggressive leukemia. “Two…
Als die diesjährigen Gewinner des Medizin-Nobelpreises verkündet wurden, war ich schon etwas erleichtert darüber dass es doch…
ゲノム編集技術、CRISPR/Cas9。今年のノーベル賞(化学賞あるいは医学生理学Ũ
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It’s an exciting time to be a biologist! Every few years it seems like there is another significant technical breakthrough that…
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A report this April rocked the scientific world: scientists in China reported editing the genomes of human embryos using CRISPR/C…
Most summer reading lists are books for the beach. We thought we would take a different approach: papers for the plane! Take a…
We all dream of journeying (or living) among the stars. But space is a spectacularly awful place for humans, and we’re not…
Die Genmanipulation von menschlichen Embryonen stößt aus vielerlei Gründen auf Ablehnung, ethische Abwägungen spielen jedoch…
APPROFONDIMENTO – Da mesi fra i biologi è in corso un aspro dibattito sul cosiddetto “editing” della linea germinale, le…
In social science and policy circles there has been a lot of talk about Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). However…
Technology Photo credit: How long before we start designing our future athletes from scratch – before they are…
Christopher Thomas Scott Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics Director, Program on Stem Cells in Society A decade ago I…
I’m honored to be here guest-blogging for the week. Thanks, Alex, for the warm welcome. I want to start with a topic recently…
Gene therapy, considered by many to be the holy grail of medicine, involves editing disease-causing mutations out of genes to…
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Welcome to the April 2015 High Five here at Altmetric! In this blog post, I’ll be leading you on a tour of the top 5 peer-reviewe…
The fields of biotechnology and medicine are rapidly evolving, and with them their associated employment opportunities. Here…
Whoever first crosses the line to edited embryos will find a powerful new resource in the fight against disease. What we ought…
When the news broke last week, suddenly we were there: the future. Scientists had edited human DNA, both breaking a long-standing…
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has reiterated its stance against modifying human embryos, after a paper published…
CRISPR/Cas9, a gene-editing technique that can target and modify DNA with groundbreaking accuracy, is both the newest darling…
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As widely reported last week, a group in China has published results of CRISPR editing experiments in human triponuclear…
Da haben also in China Wissenschaftler menschliche Embryonen genetisch verändert. Und zwar einfach weil sie es können. Okay…
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Editing the genomes of human embryos are the center of debate over the ethics of gene editing. Scientists in China have…
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Chinese scientists have modified the genes of a human embryo, but say the technology is not ready yet.
Carl Zimmer in his excellent blog, The Loom: Earlier this week, Chinese researchers reported that they edited the genes of…
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove,
On episode #334 of the science show This Week in Virology, the TWiVles talk about endogenous viruses in plants, sex and…
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy…
By Kelsey Berry This week, a research group in China published a paper describing a significant step forward in one application…
Prima o poi doveva succedere. Dalle pagine della rivista Protein
As mentioned previously, a moratorium has been called on the new gene editing technique using the CRISPR/Cas9 system due to…
As you'll have heard, the rumors that CRISPR/Cas9 experiments had been performed on human embryonic tissue have turned out to…
By Mark Johnson of the Journal…
Hot on the heels of a call for a moratorium, researchers in China have successfully edited the genome of human embryos.
The big news in genetics this week has been a report published in Protein
Mitten in die Debatte um die ethischen Aspekte dieser Forschung platzt die Nachricht: Der erste Test einer neuen Hightech-Methode…
In retrospect, it seemed to be the calm before the storm. The science news world was humming along as usual with the biggest…
Chris Gyngell and Julian…
A funny thing happened on the way to the publisher. In a world first, China has successfully created genetically modified human…