CEP: News Update August2018News UpdateNew CRISPR Findings Raise Concerns Before Technology’s Clinical Debut A pair of studies that investigated the effect of CRISPR-Cas 9 on a key protein that regulates cell growth and protects against cancer has sent shockwaves through the growing...
Editing Genes One Sequence at a Time July 17, 2018Take a look at the advantages, drawbacks, and future of CRISPR-Cas9, which has transformed synthetic bioengineering.
Technical Entity Trends: CRISPR: Editing Genes One Sequence at a Time June2018Technical Entity TrendsKeith JosephThe technology known as CRISPR — clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats — has taken the field of synthetic bioengineering by storm. It emerged as a gene-editing tool only five years ago, but has become a familiar presence in the lab.
First Complete Human Genome within Sight March 20, 2018Researchers announced this week that they are closing in on producing the first complete and accurate linear map of a human Y chromosome centromere.
CEP: News Update March2018News UpdateVaccine Boosts Immune System Response to Cancer Cancer can be difficult to treat because its highly proliferative cells spread throughout the body, effectively evading the immune system’s surveillance. One opportunity that scientists are pursuing...
Your Experiences Leave a Mark February 13, 2018Epigenetics — the study of how our actions and experiences mark or modify our DNA — can explain some unusual genetic findings.
CEP: News Update January2018News UpdateNew Technique 3D Prints Living Materials Although most 3D printers produce objects from inorganic matter, an international team of scientists has developed a way for their prints to take on a life of their own. Engineers Put Two-Dimensional...