The first gene-editing treatment: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2024
WHO CRISPR Therapeutics, Editas Medicine, Precision BioSciences, Vertex Pharmaceuticals WHEN Now The first gene-editing cure has arrived. Grateful patients are calling it “life changing.” It was only...
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A brain-dead man was attached to a gene-edited pig liver for three days
Surgeon Abraham Shaked thinks he has probably carried out more than 2,500 liver transplants. But in December 2023, a team he oversees at the University of Pennsylvania did something he’d never tried...
View ArticleDonated bodies are powering gene-edited organ research
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Ready, set, grow: These are the biotech plants you can buy now
This spring I am looking forward to growing some biotech in my backyard for the first time. It’s possible because of startups that have started selling genetically engineered plants directly to...
View ArticleThe weird way Alabama’s embryo ruling takes on artificial wombs
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An AI-driven “factory of drugs” claims to have hit a big milestone
Alex Zhavoronkov has been messing around with artificial intelligence for more than a decade. In 2016, the programmer and physicist was using AI to rank people by looks and sort through pictures of...
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There is a new most expensive drug in the world. Price tag: $4.25 million
There is a new most expensive drug ever—a gene therapy that costs as much as a Brooklyn brownstone or a Miami mansion, and more than the average person will earn in a lifetime. Lenmeldy is a gene...
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Brain-cell transplants are the newest experimental epilepsy treatment
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My biotech plants are dead
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Scientists are trying to get cows pregnant with synthetic embryos
It was a cool morning at the beef teaching unit in Gainesville, Florida, and cow number #307 was bucking in her metal cradle as the arm of a student perched on a stool disappeared into her cervix. The...
View ArticleThat viral video showing a head transplant is a fake. But it might be real...
An animated video posted this week has a voice-over that sounds like a late-night TV ad, but the pitch is straight out of the far future. The arms of an octopus-like robotic surgeon swirl, swiftly...
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