Category Archives: GMO
Is Lander’s revisionist CRISPR history sexist?
Food fights: the new dietary guidelines, fats, salt, sugar, edible GMOs
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inThe cancer moonshot and other future science fantasies
More on gene editing rules, CRISPR in humans and dogs, bioethics & breakthroughs
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inPsychology cleans up its act, plus biohackers embrace gene editing, CRISPR, cyborgs
THE MESS IN PSYCHOLOGY AND OTHER SCIENCES TOO You’d think that the just-published Science paper, recounting a massive attempt at replication of 100 selected research projects published in the top psychology journals in 2008, would be cause for much beating … Continue reading
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inPinker’s gene editing rant ignored most bioethics issues; debunking stoner Shakespeare
Do you suppose Steven Pinker’s broadside against professional bioethics oversight of CRISPR and other forms of gene editing–Pinker’s command to bioethics was brutally inflexible: “Get out of the way”–will change bioethics for the better? Or gene editing, for that matter? … Continue reading
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inUpdate on gene editing of human embryos–and other organisms
The National Academy of Sciences has confirmed officially that yes, as rumored for weeks, it will hold a meeting to thrash out issues posed by the new gene editing techniques. These will probably be ethical and policy issues mostly. … Continue reading
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inHomo sap is now a GMO. Shall we edit the genes of human embryos?
Well, the rumors that scientists in China have been messing around with fully predictable genetic engineering of human embryos, discussed here at On Science Blogs a month ago, turn out to be true. Fully predictable hell has broken out. More … Continue reading
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inSynBio B***********: Genetic recoding. Also, measles goes to Disneyland
An early triumph for the infant synthetic biology? Do you suppose Science‘s Breakthrough (Arrrrgh!) of the Year for 2015 has already arrived? In January, no less? Via two papers in Nature? Which venue, I suppose, might take it out … Continue reading
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From GMOs to GROs: Will Life Find a Way?
A pair of papers in this week’s Nature introduces GROs — “genomically recoded organisms” — whose altered genetic code makes them require a synthetic amino acid to survive. Although this new type of biocontainment indeed keeps microorganisms from spreading to … Continue reading
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