Jeff Bartel is chairman and managing director of Hamptons Group, a private investment and strategic advisory firm headquartered in Miami. Gene editing technology, a major biotechnology advance, is ...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The hottest tool in biology has scientists using words like revolutionary as they describe the long-term potential: wiping out certain mosquitoes that carry malaria, treating ...
From CRISPR to gene banking, synthetic biology has big implications for wildlife evolution and conservation, but ethical ...
Part 1 of the TED Radio Hour episode "The biotech visionaries" Biochemist Jennifer Doudna helped discover the genetic editing tool CRISPR in 2011. Today, as it begins to deliver on its medical ...
Our understanding of DNA has grown dramatically over the past couple of decades. The CRISPR technology, which allows scientists to map and even change DNA, has helped to boost that understanding even ...
It’s one of the most exciting ideas in medicine: prenatal cell and gene therapy, where pathological gene mutations and diseases are corrected in the fetus before it ever leaves the womb, protecting ...
Scientists in Japan have used gene-editing technology to remove the extra chromosome responsible for Down syndrome, at least in lab-grown human cells. The project, led by Dr. Ryotaro Hashizume of Mie ...