A new research study at the University of Missouri is using CRISPR gene-editing technology to produce mosquitoes that are unable to replicate Zika virus and therefore cannot infect a human through biting. Slashdot reader wooloohoo shared an announcement from Cornell’s Alliance for Science: Alexander Franz, an associate professor in the MU College of Veterinary Medicine, collaborated with researchers at Colorado State…
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Mars colonists could be genetically modified
For future settlers, living and working on Mars could mean having to undergo genetic modification. With the first ever manned mission to the Red Plane… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/337189/mars-colonists-could-be-genetically-modified…
Exclusive: Spray-on gene editing could make genetic modification easy
Genetically modifying plants could soon be almost as easy as spraying them with water. A new technique involving nanoparticles could have a wide variety of uses Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2222028-exclusive-spray-on-gene-editing-could-make-genetic-modification-easy/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Scientists Put Human Brain Genes in Monkeys and Made Them Smarter
It’s time for the latest edition of “What Could Possibly Go Wrong?”, the game show that pits seemingly unethical science against potentially catastrophic predictions. In today’s competition, scientists in China (one point already for the catastrophic team) announce they used gene-editing to place human brain genes in rhesus macaque monkeys and it made their brains… Continue reading Scientists Put Human Brain Genes in Monkeys and Made Them Smarter