You’ve heard of startups building computer chips, delivery drones and social networks. One called Colossal has a very different goal: bringing the woolly mammoth back from extinction by 2027 using CRISPR, a revolutionary gene editing technology.
Paddy Doherty of County Donegal, Ireland, recently became the fifth person in the world to have cells deep inside his body altered by the gene-editing tool CRISPR/Cas9.
Gene editors that target DNA bases may not be as safe as thought
From disastrous scientific setbacks to the upending of scientific dogma and the end of a 40-year search for a protein
Jiankui He shocked the world with news his team had created the first genetically modified twin girls. Now he says there may be more on the way.
The new technique offers a less permanent way to edit the genome.
Genome GIFs.
Geneticists have made a step forward in ‘recoding’ the genome as we know it, replacing 62,214 DNA base pairs in a synthetic E. coli genome.
