Researchers are using the gene-editing tool to boost the fruit’s defences and prevent the extinction of a major commercial variety.
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Russia Confirms Explosion At Ex Bioweapons Lab Storing Ebola, Smallpox And Plague.
Magnetic Algae. Is this the new trend to decorate your fridges?Spoiler alert: No.(Source: gesundheitsindustrie-bw.de)
How can patient access to Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMPs) be improved at university hospital medical centres? In a new Briefing Paper the League of European Research Universities (LERU), including Leiden University, makes a number of recommendations. (Source: leru.org)
The Philippines on Thursday announced an outbreak of polio, 19 years after the World Health Organization declared the Southeast Asian country free of the infectious disease. (source: NY Times)
A timeline for milestones in HIV research. (Source: nature.com)
Following on from a successful pilot at the Sanger Institute, we are leading a project to sequence the genomes of all UK Biobank volunteers to power the next wave of genetic and health research. Read more in sanger.ac.uk
DNA-based information storage may also help reduce our carbon footprint. Read more in jpost.com
Drugs derived from Ivermectin, which makes human blood deadly to mosquitoes, could be available within two years. Read more in The Guardian
The search for more effective and less toxic therapies for cancer has occupied scientists for decades. Recently approved treatments involving the genetic modification of a patient’s own T cells to better target cancer cells are an important advance in cancer treatment, thereby sparing patients less effective therapies while offering a meaningful chance at remission. Read […]