When the monkeys were single-celled embryos, scientists had used CRISPR editing tools to silence, or “knock out”, a gene that ...

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With more than 100,000 Americans waiting on a new organ, xenotransplantation is a leading example of how editing animals ...

Gene-edited crops may help adaptation to climate change The centre, funded primarily by the British government, operates on ...

Most super shoes follow the same pattern,” explains Jens Jakob Andersen, founder of RunRepeat.com, a website that road-tests ...

Like recombinant DNA before it, gene editing has the potential to transform medicine, agriculture and more. CRISPR is now used by thousands of biologists in labs across the globe. A revolution in food ...

Doctors harvest stem cells from the patient’s bone marrow and then send them off to a lab, where CRISPR is used to turn up the production of another, functional version of haemoglobin. This version is ...

Building a gene editor took months. With CRISPR even high-schoolers can get hold of editing systems in the time it takes to order RNA sequences online and have them shipped by FedEx. In a short while ...

Russian media constantly broadcasts about the “fake” nature of Ukrainian identity, using language reminiscent of past ...

In theory, any of the 13m students who take the annual gaokao entrance exam can qualify to attend university if they achieve ...

While America’s shipbuilding industry has sunk, China’s has steamed ahead to become the world’s largest. Chinese shipbuilders ...

For his part, Mr Musk may see consultants not as the solution, but part of the problem. Many of them are frustrated with how ...