Technology How biotech went from “no way” to payday in the cannabis businessMIT Technology Review - Antonio Regalado Genetic engineers want to make bio-pot, for fun and health, but their venture could backfire if they help create a public health menace. Last fall, …
Homeland Security Homeland Security starting DNA testing program at southern borderAxios - Khorri Atkinson The Department of Homeland Security announced its plan run a pilot program to test the DNA of families arriving at the southern border to help …
Technology What Does DNA Tell Us About Race?Forbes - Jennifer RaffToday is National DNA Day, a day to commemorate the publication of James Watson and Francis Crick’s famous paper (that included the work of Rosalind Franklin) in 1953 describing the structure of DNA. we
Technology Sooner or Later Your Cousin’s DNA Is Going to Solve a MurderThe New York Times - By HEATHER MURPHYIn the year since the arrest of the man believed to be the notorious Golden State Killer, the world of criminal investigation has been radically transformed. Using an unconventional technique that relies
DNA DNA as you've never seen it before, thanks to a new nanotechnology imaging methodtheconversation.com - David M. Gilbert For biologists everywhere, April 25 is auspicious. It is DNA Day and commemorates the date in 1953 when scientists Francis Crick, Rosalind Franklin, …
Hitting the Books: How calculus is helping unravel DNA's secretsEngadget - Andrew TarantolaIt's not just for the hard sciences anymore! Welcome to Hitting the Books. With less than one in five Americans reading just for fun these days, we've done the hard work for you by scouring the internet
Powerful CRISPR cousin accidentally mutates RNA while editing DNA targetsciencemag.org - Jon Cohen When researchers first reported 3 years ago that they had created base editors, a version of the powerful genome-editing tool CRISPR, excitement …
CRISPR CRISPR used to build dual-core computers inside human cellsnewatlas.com - Michael Irving The CRISPR gene-editing system is usually known for helping scientists treat genetic diseases, but the technology has a whole range of possible uses …
CRISPR gene editing has been used on humans in the USEngadget - Jon FingasIt's part of a trial that could rethink medicine. The first human trials in the US for CRISPR gene editing are officially underway. A University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia spokesman has confirmed
Gene Therapy Was Hailed as a Revolution. Then Came the BillBloomberg - James Paton Dozens of revolutionary gene therapies that mend faulty strands of DNA are on their way, bringing the power to eliminate lethal childhood diseases, …
Ancestry Testing Company: It’s Our ‘Moral Responsibility’ to Give The FBI Access to Your DNAGizmodo - Jennings Brown A popular DNA testing company seems to be targeting true crime fans with a new pitch to let them share their genetic information with law enforcement …
Play button Don't Mail In That DNA Kit Until You Know These FactsForbes - Nicole FisherWith each passing day, technology gets us closer and closer to a reality where we can test not only our family ancestry with the likes of 23andMe, Ancenstry.com, MyHeritage or Helix, but our disease propensity
XGenomes is bringing DNA sequencing to the massesTechCrunch - Jonathan ShieberAs healthcare moves toward genetically tailored treatments, one of the biggest hurdles to truly personalized medicine is the lack of fast, low-cost genetic testing. And few people are more familiar with
After Selling Her Genetic Data Mining Software Company, A 32-Year-Old CEO Relaunches It With A Microsoft PartnershipForbes - Ellie KincaidAs a 22-year-old recent college graduate with a psychology degree, Adina Mangubat founded a software company to address a need that was just emerging in 2009: analyzing the huge amounts of data generated
Genetically engineered immune cells wipe out lupus in micesciencemag.org - Jennifer Couzin-Frankel Lupus can be a stubborn disease to treat. Although many struck by the autoimmune condition live relatively normal lives, some suffer from kidney …
First CRISPR therapy administered in landmark human trialnewatlas.com - Rich Haridy The first confirmed CRISPR gene editing clinical trial to take place outside of China is officially underway, with pharmaceutical companies CRISPR …
Genetics China’s CRISPR twins might have had their brains inadvertently enhancedMIT Technology Review - Antonio Regalado New research suggests that a controversial gene-editing experiment to make children resistant to HIV may also have enhanced their ability to learn …
Newly Decoded Great White Shark Genome Hints at Why They're So IndestructibleGizmodo - Ed Cara The great white shark is impressively terrifying (though not actually much of a threat to humans). But a new study shows that the animal is also an …
Scientists use CRISPR to make stem cells invisible to immune systemEngadget - AJ DellingerThe new technique prevents the body from rejecting cells. Scientists at the University of California San Francisco have developed a new method to minimize the likelihood that a person's body will reject
Gene therapy first to 'halt' most common cause of blindnessBBC News - Fergus WalshA woman from Oxford has become the first person in the world to have gene therapy to try to halt the most common form of blindness in the Western world. Surgeons injected a synthetic gene into the back
FamilyTreeDNA Admits to Sharing Genetic Data With F.B.I.The New York Times - By MATTHEW HAAGThe president of FamilyTreeDNA, one of the country’s largest at-home genetic testing companies, has apologized to its users for failing to disclose that it was sharing DNA data with federal investigators
Play button Conan O'Brien's DNA test results are frankly a feat of human geneticsMashable - Rachel ThompsonYou know you're something special when a doctor tells you they've not seen anything quite like you before. That's what Conan O'Brien was told by his doctor when he went for a physical and ended up getting
NY Times, Why Are You So Worried About 23andMe's Genetic Tests?Forbes - Steven SalzbergThe New York Times decided to publish an editorial this weekend warning people to “be careful about 23andMe’s Health Test.” What are they worried about? Although the NY Times article is accurate, the suggests
Creating Neanderthal 'Mini-Brains' With Ancient DNA, CRISPRdiscovermagazine.com For most of our history, Homo sapiens haven’t been the only humans on the planet. At least half a dozen other species are members of the genus Homo, …
A consumer DNA testing company has given the FBI access to its two million profilesMIT Technology Review - Antonio Regalado A large consumer DNA test database, Family Tree DNA, has quietly started allowing the FBI to upload genetic profiles created from crime scenes and …
Thanks to Ancestry, Six Strangers Learn How They’re Connected Via the Underground RailroadAdweek - By Shannon Miller Last December, six strangers were invited by Ancestry to a small tour in Brooklyn, where they assumed they would uncover some fascinating aspects of …
Chinese Scientists Cloned Gene-Edited Monkeys With Horrifying Resultsfuturism.com - Kristin Houser Cloned Again Almost exactly one year ago, the world met Hua Hua and Zhong Zhong, the first primates cloned through a technique that could …
How to Stop Rogue Gene-Editing of Human Embryos?The New York Times - By PAM BELLUCKA year ago, Dr. Matthew Porteus, a genetics researcher at Stanford, received an out-of-the-blue email from a young Chinese scientist, asking to meet. A few weeks later, the scientist, He Jiankui, arrived
China seems to confirm scientist's gene-edited babies claimAssociated Press - By MARILYNN MARCHIONEChinese authorities appear to have confirmed a scientist’s unpublished claim that he helped make the world’s first gene-edited babies and that a second pregnancy is underway, and say he could face consequences
