Researchers have used CRISPR, the genome editing tool, to speed the inheritance of specific genes in mammals for the first time. Read more in sciencemag.org
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The Pentagon has been asked to examine whether ticks and other insects were experimented on as potential biological weapons, after a US politician demanded the US military give answers. Read more in telegraph.co.uk
The cancer fighters known as CAR T cells have proved their prowess in recent years. Three therapies using the altered T cells against lymphoma or leukemia have won U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval, and hundreds of trials are now unleashing them on other malignancies, including solid tumors. Read more in sciencemag.org
Researchers use two techniques—Wolbachia infection and irradiation—to suppress reproduction in populations of Asian tiger mosquitoes at two study sites in China. Read more in the-scientist.com
Today, Batavia Biosciences announces it received a follow-up grant of $2.2 million from PATH – a global organization dedicated to health equity – to develop and manufacture novel oral poliovirus vaccines (nOPV). Read more in bataviabiosciences.com
One of several debates in Vienna argued the possibility that children born from ART have a role in the evolution of the human species. As yet, there’s no data to prove anything, but it made for a lively discussion. Read more in focusonreproduction.eu
The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo a “public health emergency of international concern”. Read more in bbc.com
Hundreds of CRISPR patents have been granted around the world, and the number of applications continues to grow at a rapid pace. Read more in the-scientist.com
From personalizing clinical practice to aiding biomedical research, individualized clinical trials have been heralded as a solution to several problems plaguing modern medicine. But they’ve yet to be widely adopted. Read more in the-scientist.com
The European Commission has adopted a measure laying down the non-renewal of approval of the active substance dimethoate, used as an insecticide mainly against the olive fruit fly in conventional farming. Read more in oliveoiltimes.com