NHS This British Mum With Incredibly Rare Blood Has Already Saved Dozens of Lives globalcitizen.org - By Imogen Calderwood Sue Olds, from Cornwall, is the only donor of her kind in the UK. The UN’s Global Goal 3 works for good health and wellbeing for everyone. And when it …
CNBCEmployment Apple is offering free genetic tests to all its Silicon Valley employees CNBC - Christina Farr Color's test analyzes gene mutations that are known to be associated with cancer and cardiovascular disease, as well as ancestry information. Color …
CRISPR CRISPR's unwanted anniversary sciencemag.org - science.sciencemag.org There are key moments in the history of every disruptive technology that can make or break its public perception and acceptance. For CRISPR-based …
HIV Nearly 25% of People Would Risk Death for HIV Cure hivplusmag.com - David Artavia While many people living with HIV are doing well on treatment, they're still willing to risk their lives for a cure. A new study has revealed what …
Law Bone marrow recipient's DNA partly changed after procedure; what are the implications for law enforcement? abajournal.com - By Debra Cassens Weiss A Nevada man who received a bone marrow transplant underwent a blood test and discovered that some of his DNA had been replaced by that of his German …
Positive Thinking Blood donations could mean ultimate present this holiday season, gift of life localmemphis.com - www.localmemphis.com MEMPHIS, Tenn. (localmemphis.com) – There is an urgent push to help save lives in the gift of giving the holiday season. Vitalant says donations are …
Washington D.C. “Can we talk about the Children’s Bloodmobile?” popville.com - Prince Of Petworth “Dear PoPville,There are a lot of (intentionally?) hilarious things going on with this bloodmobile. First, we call them bloodmobiles. That is pretty …
Comic Book Resourcesflipped into Comics NewsComic Books Barry Windsor-Smith Shares Art From 250-Page Graphic Novel, Monsters cbr.com - Chad Denton Eisner Awards Hall of Fame winner Barry Windsor-Smith (Uncanny X-Men, Archer & Armstrong) has come out of his semi-retirement to reveal the impending …
Mutations Targeted selection of HIV-specific antibody mutations by engineering B cell maturation sciencemag.org - science.sciencemag.org Our study represents a proof of concept for targeted selection of improbable mutations to guide antibody affinity maturation. Moreover, this study …
NPRHIV A New HIV Vaccine Effort With A Different Kind Of Strategy NPR - Pien HuangEver since the AIDS epidemic erupted nearly 40 years ago, researchers have tried to make a vaccine. The efforts typically end up like this: "Failure Of Latest HIV Vaccine Test: A 'Huge Disappointment.'
Genetic Testing Genetic counseling: Clinical practice and ethical considerations from CSHL Press eurekalert.org - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press announced the release of Genetic Counseling: Clinical Practice and Ethical …
Biomedical Engineering Nigerian Reseacher Flays Promotion of Bone Marrow Transplant for HIV/Aids Cure allafrica.com - By Lawal Sherifat A Nigerian researcher, Prof. Maduike Ezeibe, has frowned at the analytical treatment interruption, otherwise known as bone marrow transplant, being …
Icon version of the Flipboard logoDisease Genetic regulatory variation in populations informs transcriptome analysis in rare disease sciencemag.org - science.sciencemag.org AAAS login provides access to Science for AAAS members, and access to other journals in the Science family to users who have purchased individual …
IKITOflipped into Healthy LivingGene Therapy High-tech method for uniquely targeted gene therapy developed eurekalert.org - Lund University Neuroscientists at Lund University in Sweden have developed a new technology that engineers the shell of a virus to deliver gene therapy to the exact …
Disease Team finds bovine kobuvirus in US eurekalert.org - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A virus that afflicts cattle that was first discovered in Japan in 2003 has made its way to the U.S., researchers report in the …
IKITOflipped into Healthy LivingViruses Herpes's Achilles heel eurekalert.org - Harvard Medical School In a first, scientists use gene-editing to disrupt both latent and active herpes virus in human cells The herpes simplex virus, commonly known as the …
Catholicism Testing leads to fall in number of Down's syndrome babies thetablet.co.uk - by Liz Dodd Campaigners are calling on the government to stop the roll-out of a more accurate pre-natal test for Down’s syndrome. Their call came after hospitals …
The Wall Street Journal.Disease Price Controls Would Stifle Biotech Innovation The Wall Street Journal. - Scott GottliebA House price-control bill would do the most damage to transformative and life-saving medications. Victoria Gray of Mississippi recently became the first U.S. patient with a genetic disorder to be treated
The Mercury Newsflipped into Top StoriesCalifornia Fixing nature's genetic mistakes in the womb The Mercury News - Lisa M. Krieger By the time a baby is born with a catastrophic genetic disease, medical help is too little, too late. UC San Francisco doctors are studying a bolder …
TechCrunchflipped into News about startups from TechCrunchStartups $125 million for Inscripta may usher in the next wave of genetic engineering TechCrunch - Jonathan ShieberIn these waning days of the second decade of the twenty-first century, technologists and investors are beginning to lay the foundations for new, truly transformational technologies that have the potential
Andrew Maxflipped into TipsEXCLUSIVE: The CRISPR babies paper CRISPR Magazine by MIT Technology ReviewEarlier this year, a source sent us a copy of an unpublished manuscript describing the creation of the first gene-edited babies. We are making excerpts of that manuscript public for the first time.
Genevieve P.flipped into Thought BitesScience After Bone Marrow Transplant, Man’s Semen Contains Only Donor’s DNA futurism.com His strange situation could affect the future of forensic science. Chris Long is an IT worker in the Washoe County Sheriff’s Department in Reno, …
Live ScienceBiomedical Engineering First Pig-Monkey Chimeras Were Just Created in China Live Science - Nicoletta Lanese Two piglets recently born in China look like average swine on the outside, but on the inside, they are (a very small) part monkey. A team of …
Michael Stramiello, JD, PhDflipped into CRISPR TrackerCRISPR Biotech Investors Clamor for Crispr-Focused Tech in Surprise Round The Wall Street Journal. - Heather MackFollowing Inscripta’s first public announcement of gene-editing and cell production platform, investors raced to back the company Inscripta Inc. wasn’t seeking to raise capital when the genome-engineering
NPRflipped into ScienceScience Gene Therapy May Aid In Sickle Cell Disease Treatment NPR - Rob SteinScientists report progress using gene therapy to treat sickle cell disease, a common and devastating genetic blood disorder. We've been hearing a lot of reporting recently about using the latest genetic
CRISPR Genomic cut and paste using a class 1 CRISPR system phys.org - Osaka University Almost from the moment DNA was discovered, the ability to fix or remove disease-causing genes in affected patients has been something of a holy grail …
Horses FEI Releases New Dressage Tests for 2020 - Eventing Nation - Three-Day Eventing News, Results, Videos, and Commentary eventingnation.com - Sally Spickard Oliver Townend and BALLAGHMOR CLASS during the dressage phase, Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials, Gloucestershire, 2019 Just in time to start …
Protein Directed evolution improves the catalytic efficiency of TEV protease nature.com - Mateo I Sanchez, Alice Y Ting Liu, Q. et al. A photoactivatable botulinum neurotoxin for inducible control of neurotransmission. Neuron 101, 863–875 (2019). Smart, A. D. et al. …
Rosli Ahmedflipped into Bits & Pieces DNA Man who had transplant finds out months later his DNA has changed to… independent.co.uk - Heather Murphy Three months after his bone marrow transplant, Chris Long of Reno, Nevada, learned that the DNA in his blood had changed. It had all been replaced by …
aperçu énergieflipped into DiscoveriesBiology New Details About The Infamous 'CRISPR Babies' Experiment Have Just Been Revealed ScienceAlert - DIMITRI PERRIN & GAETAN BURGIO More than a year ago, the world was shocked by Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui's attempt to use CRISPR technology to modify human embryos and make …
