Efforts to make heritable changes to the human genome are fraught with uncertainty. Here’s what it would take to make the technique safe and acceptable. Read more in nature.com
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China this week announced a new law restricting the collection and use of genetic resources from people in the country — including biological samples that yield DNA, such as blood, and data gleaned from sequencing them. Read more in nature.com
Another researcher has announced controversial plans to gene edit babies. Read more in nature.com
A Bill to introduce a soft “opt-out” system for organ and tissue donation has been passed by the Scottish Parliament. Read more in stv.tv
The Bioeconomy Strategy is an umbrella for long term sustainable development in Europe and is Europe’s response to key environmental challenges the world is facing today. Read more in microbiomesupport.eu
New research in mice repurposes a drug used for blood disorders to starve antibiotic-resistant fungus of iron, thus halving the survival rate of the yeast. Read more in medicalnewstoday.com
WHO received notification through the Global Polio Laboratory Network of the detection of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) from an environmental sample collected on 20 April 2019 in a hospital in Northern Cameroon. Read more in who.int
The event will build on the work carried out by the ENRD Thematic Group on ‘Mainstreaming the Bioeconomy’ More information in enrd.ec.europa.eu
In 2018, a Chinese researcher shocked the world by announcing the birth of two gene-edited babies. The mutations may have hurt, not helped. Read more in nationalgeographic.com
Despite a coordinated response and a vaccine, the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s struggle with the deadly virus seems to have no quick end in sight. Read more in nationalgeographic.com