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The book "The Genesis Machine" outlines the promise and peril of synthetic biology, a powerful tool that will allow us to program life like a computer.
“It’s a big resource in the way the human genome is a big resource, in that you can go in and do discovery-based research."
For 40 years, scientists thought a specific gene was linked to aggression in hamsters. Removing it, however, had violent consequences.
From synthetic biology to xenotransplantation, biotech will continue to march forward in 2023, in part powered by data and AI.
From the bedside to the lab bench, here’s how laboratory testing works.
The potential of CRISPR technology is incredible, but the threats are too serious to ignore.
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Synthetic biology has the power to cure and kill. Have we learned from our past mistakes?
Could we all attain this superpower?
An experiment in rats suggests that gene editing may be a treatment for anxiety and alcoholism in adults who were exposed to binge-drinking in their adolescence.
Smallpox, Ebola, HIV, influenza, the plague, malaria, and a whole host of terrible bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites were cooked up by Mother Nature, all on her own. Apparently, Mother Nature hasn't banned gain-of-function research.
Cross-disciplinary cooperation is needed to save civilization.
Researchers believe they have found a single point mutation in an infection-sensing gene that causes the autoimmune disorder.
Surely they can't be worse...can they?
A biotech startup has received $15 million in funding to genetically recreate woolly mammoths and rewild them in Siberia.
Sometimes, new combinations of preexisting things revolutionize life.
Skepticism is appropriate when gazing into the futurist's crystal ball.
An evolutionary biologist explains why you probably won't grow a tail.
Is CRISPR the solution?
This spring, a U.S. and Chinese team announced that it had successfully grown, for the first time, embryos that included both human and monkey cells.
It’s not a huge leap to imagine we could target the biological processes that mediate our behaviours.
In the near-term, gene editing is not likely to be useful. Even in the long-term, it may not be very practical.
Every year, scientists like George Church get better at editing the genomes of human beings. But will genome editing help or hurt us?
Proponents of transhumanism make big promises, such as a future in which we upload our minds into a supercomputer. But there is a fatal flaw in this argument: reductionism.
Are we really only a moment away from "The Singularity," a technological epoch that will usher in a new era in human evolution?
A recently identified stage of sleep common to narcoleptics is a fertile source of creativity.
Porcine gene edits may allow such transplants without rejection.
Researchers from the University of Toronto published a new map of cancer cells' genetic defenses against treatment.