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Why scientists are
calling for caution on a powerful new gene-editing technology Earlier this
week, hundreds of scientists, bioethicists, and health regulators gathered in
Washington, DC, to talk about the powerful new gene-editing system that recen…
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Meet one of the world's
most groundbreaking scientists As the dish of steamed chicken feet clattered
onto the table, an impish toddler drummed with her chop sticks. Nobody in
the noisy restaurant in Boston's Chinatown gave a second glance at the man…
The
Forest In Your Mouth - Phenomena : Not Exactly Rocket Science The study of the
human microbiome-the booming and much-hyped quest to understand the microbes
that share our bodies-began in the mouth. Specifically, it began with dental plaque.
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TOOLS/TECHNIQUES
Les sciences forensiques Tout
le monde a au moins déjà vu une fois un épisode de CSI (Les experts en
français) ou NCIS.
Antibody
Validation Anyone in the research antibody business will be aware that
discussions relating to antibody quality and validation have been gathering
pace over the last couple of years.
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HEALTH/MEDECINE
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- “A main challenge facing clinical and genomic data sharing efforts is the lack of harmonized methods and interoperable approaches that would enable such sharing. This barrier is one of the main motives for the formation of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health.”
- The Crispr Quandary
The
Crispr Quandary One day in March 2011, Emmanuelle Charpentier, a geneticist who
was studying flesh-eating bacteria, approached Jennifer Doudna, an
award-winning scientist, at a microbiology conference in Puerto Rico.
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- The World Health Organization rang a global alarm over the Zika virus on Thursday, saying that the disease was “spreading explosively” in the Americas and that as many as four million people could be infected by the end of the year.
- The focus of concern is the growing number of cases of microcephaly, a rare condition in which infants are born with abnormally small heads and damaged brains. Reports of babies born with microcephaly have been rising sharply in Brazil as Zika spreads.
- CRISPR: The Path to Clinical Trials | Xconomy
CRISPR:
The Path to Clinical Trials If you have read a newspaper lately, there is a
good chance you have heard about CRISPR-Cas9, the versatile gene editing
technology.
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Why
Fast Fashion is like an addiction I was talking to Julie Zerbo (founder of TheFashionLaw),
a lawyer who is well-known for blogging about topics that no one in the fashion
world wants her to write about, and our conversation ended up on “fast fas…
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