The prospect of using the popular genome-editing tool CRISPR to treat a host of diseases in people is moving closer to reality.
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Hospitalizations for several common diseases—including septicemia (serious bloodstream infection), fluid and electrolyte disorders, renal failure, urinary tract infections, and skin and tissue infections—have been linked for the first time with short-term exposure to fine particulate air pollution.
Are Microneedles the Key to Oral Biologic Delivery?
Oocytes Generated from Chemically Reprogrammed Mouse Granulosa Cells Produce Healthy Pups.
He Jiankui, Chinese scientist who edited babies’ genes, jailed for three years. The biophysicist was guilty of illegal practice in trying to alter the genetic makeup of twins Lula and Nana.
Biotech2020 and the decade of the Bioeconomy. 2020 is going to be a wild year for Biotechnology. An article by Alexander Titus, Head Biotechnology at Dartmouth College, USA.
A Chinese Court jailed He Jiankui for an “illegal medical practice” in editing embryos’ DNA.
The students and staff have not exhibited the flu-like symptoms characteristic of the bacterial disease, which humans can contract from coming into contact with infected animals.
Chinese criminals have been exploiting the country’s African swine fever crisis by intentionally spreading the disease to force farmers to sell their pigs for a low price before smuggling the meat and selling it on as healthy stock.
As 2019 draws to an end, we are at the dawn of a new decade – and it promises to be a time of unparalleled change in healthcare.