gene editing
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What Is CRISPR And What Can It Really Do?
A DNA-editing technique called CRISPR keeps popping up in the news, in one medical breakthrough after another. In theory, CRISPR can find any problem area in DNA, snip it out, and replace it with a fresh set of nucleotides. But in real life, that cut-and-paste job isn’t always straightforward.
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New ‘Chemical Surgery’ Technique Repairs Mutations In Human Embryos
Image: AP For the first time, a research team from China used a new technique to fix a blood disorder in human embryos. The scientists performed “chemical surgery” — a procedure that rewrites errors in genetic code instead of snapping and replacing strands of faulty DNA, which is the central strategy employed by the CRISPR…
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Scientists Are Making Horrible Red-Eye Mutant Wasps Because Why The Hell Not
Listen, scientists. I appreciate what you do, and boy I sure do love that evidence-based pursuit of knowledge, but did you have to make mutant wasps? Did you?
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Why Athletes Will Win The War Against Performance-Enhancing Drugs
Last month, UFC mixed martial artist Jon Jones was busted for using an anti-oestrogen drug known as hydroxy-clomiphene, as well as another drug, called Letrozole. Jones denied taking the drugs, claiming he didn’t even know how to pronounce them.