Researchers developed a new method for transforming adult human skin cells directly into motor neurons without the need for stem cells. Their results were published today in the journal Cell. A very important aspect of avoiding the stem cell state allows the…
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Human Genome Summit | Genetically Edited Babies
by Gabriela Martins February 16, 2019Couples could choose whether to use edited or unedited embryos for pregnancy attempts. He Jiankui, an associate professor at Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, China, addressed a packed hall of around 700 people attending the Human…
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About Alzheimer’s Disease | Is There Room For Gene Editing?
by Gabriela Martins January 25, 2019In January 2019, scientists in China reported the creation of five identical clonedgene-edited monkeys, using the same cloning technique that was used with Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua, and the same gene-editing Crispr-Cas9 technique allegedly used by He Jiankui in…
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A team led by Viviane Slon and Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Leipzig, Germany, carried out genetic analysis on a fragment of bone, more than 50,000 years old, found in a cave in Russia.…
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Stem Cell Therapy | Cells Were Counted Manually
by Gabriela Martins January 9, 2019According to the Office of the Surgeon General, 1.5 million Americans suffer fractures from bone disease every year. In experiments in rats and human cells, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they have added to evidence that a cellular protein signal…
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Roughly Three Million Years Ago, Human Brains Began To Expand
by Gabriela Martins January 7, 2019Even fifteen years after the human genome has been sequenced, researchers are still unsure about much of the data. Frank Jacobs of the University of Amsterdam was comparing gene expression patterns in cortical organoids grown from embryonic stem cells of…
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Dying Cancer Cells Release Circulating Tumor DNA Into The Blood
by Gabriela Martins January 1, 2019As AIBN researcher and study researcher Dr. Abu Sina explains: “Because cancer is an extremely complicated and variable disease, it has been difficult to find a simple signature common to all cancers, yet distinct from a healthy cell” . Patients…
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A team of Florida State University researchers has unlocked a decades-old mystery about how a critical cellular process is regulated and what that could mean for the future study of genetics. All of this work has, however, been based on…
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Electrical Protein And Useful Synthetic Biology Technologies
by Gabriela Martins December 19, 2018Scientists at Rice University have developed synthetic protein switches to control the flow of electrons. We want to leverage that exquisite ability to build more elaborate biomolecules and use these to develop useful synthetic biology technologies. We have encountered stunning…
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Certain Antibiotic Resistance Genes Are Shared Between The Human Gut
by Gabriela Martins December 8, 2018Susceptible strain of E. coli to different concentrations of fluoxetine. The SNAPPs were active against all bacterial species but were especially effective against Gram-negative bacteria like E. coli. certain antibiotic resistance genes are shared between the human gut microbiome are…
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