Second gene therapy for Huntington’s disease
Surprisingly, 1 in 2,000 people inherit a pair of chromosomes from one parent
Research plan for radiation resistance drugs with CRISPRi
CRISPR-Cas13 can fight off our viruses
Proof of concept personal RNA therapy for ultra-rare form of Batten’s disease
Gaps in the human reference genome
Gene therapy vectors spread from one eye to another
23andMe and AncestryDNA provide different but consistent data
CRISPRi switches off 13 genes at once
Risk of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is partially genetic
Genetic Engineering and Society
A new preprint at Biorxiv reports a comparison between DNA testing results from companies 23andMe,…
CODIS database, initially created to solve violent crimes by FBI, will be extended to all…
Scientific Discoveries
Some people have incredibly long runs of homozygosity with no clear deleterious effect.Sohini Ramachandran You inherit half of your DNA from mother and half from…
The largest genetic study of individuals with PTSD reveals six regions in the human genome, which influence the risk of developing the disorder. Post-traumatic stress…
Details of the cholera bacterium's T6SS (type VI secretion system) have been worked out with sequencing methods - and showed the unexpected breadth of horizontal…
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Quote of October 2019
The degree of introgression is not trivial. Depending on sample and criterion used to define unambiguous introgression, from about 10% to 60% of all individuals have some OX513A genome.
– About genetically modified mosquitoes released in Brazil. The claim was refuted by Oxitec, the author of OX513A. More here.
Genetic Engineering in Videos
Jennifer Doudna, Co-Founder Of CRISPR, On The Future Of Gene Editing
Unnatural Selection: Season 1 | Main Trailer | Netflix
Rewriting Life, with David Liu, Harvard University
Broad@15 Talk Series; The Human Genomic Revolution: Past, Present, and Future (2019)
