By Marc Zimmer New London: During her chemistry Nobel Prize lecture in 2018, Frances Arnold said, “Today we can for all practical purposes read, write and edit any sequence of DNA, but we cannot compose it.” That isn’t true anymore. Since then, science and technology have progressed so much that artificial intelligence has learned to … Read more
Researchers have developed gene-edited chickens that are partially resistant to bird flu. Source link
New way of altering DNA is used to engineer an “exciting”, experimental therapy for a 13-year girl. Source link
Feb. 23, 2022 — We hear a lot about the scourges of mosquitoes as they spread malaria, dengue fever, Zika, and other illnesses, but they’re certainly not the only tiny vector out there spreading disease. Just ask anyone who’s dealt with Lyme disease. Ticks have long been a major source of infectious disease, but they … Read more
Two women — Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna — were awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize for chemistry by the Nobel Committee on Wednesday. The duo received the Nobel Prize in chemistry award for developing a method of genome editing, or gene editing, likened to “molecular scissors” that offers the promise of one day curing inherited … Read more