articles tagged: genetic engineering
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Injecting a key protein from tardigrades into human cells gives them the same kind of metabolic benefits as the hearty extremophiles.
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Biotech company Colossal keeps promising to return extinct creatures from the dead. But could they actually do it? And most importantly, should they?
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We've made an awful lot of plastic, and it's a global ecological disaster. Now, bacteria that can eat it might be our best bet to get rid of it. At a steep price.
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Despite dire warnings, we may never be able to custom design humans. And if we ever learn how, we may accidentally drive ourselves into extinction if we try.
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He Jiankui tried to create two human beings resistant to HIV. Instead he triggered an international scandal with his methods and work experts describe as amateurish and shoddy.
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The first cancer-fighting gene therapy has been approved by the FDA, a major step towards turning cancers into manageable diseases.
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One good way to fight bacteria that have a resistance to antibiotics may be to remove their resistance to antibiotics...
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Anti-GMO activism is the left's version of global warming denialism and it's just as vicious and fact-free.
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Epidemiologists are thinking about trying to stop the spread of HIV with more HIV, but a strain engineered to be harmless to humans.
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No matter how good the intentions, designing the babies of a future generations is simply not going to work in the long term.
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The first synthetically designed life form has been created in a proof of concept that shows how much we now understand about the fundamentals of microbial life.
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Consider this a PSA for aspiring biohackers: gene therapy does not work if you literally drink the genes.
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The good news is that we found a way to drastically extend life. The bad news is that it only applies to some of the simplest worms on the planet.
# oddities
What happens when you think a little too deep about biological weirdness in ads.
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We've tried eugenics in real life. It was an absolute failure.
