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Your Next Pet Could Be a Glowing Rabbit | WIRED
Biohacker Josie Zyner’s new company, Los Angeles Project, is creating a new generation of gene-edited pets. The team has used Crispr to add a gene... (2025)
This company plans to transplant pig hearts into babies next year | MIT Technology Review
eGenesis has started transplanting gene-edited pigs’ hearts into infant baboons—and humans may be next. The company, based in Cambridge, Massach... (2023)
The Human Genome Project transformed biology | The Economist
The human genome project at 20. Epic ambition. The genomics revolution has transformed biology. Its work it’s not over yet Yet for genomics to b... (2023)
Why Applying Machine Learning to Biology is Hard – But Worth It | a16z Future
Computational genomics pioneer Jimmy Lin explains what many machine learning-focused biotech companies and get wrong about hiring, data, and commun... (2022)
DeepMind’s protein-folding AI has solved a 50-year-old grand challenge of biology | MIT Technology Review
DeepMind has already notched up a streak of wins, showcasing AIs that have learned to play a variety of complex games with superhuman skill, from G... (2022)
DeepMind has predicted the structure of almost every protein known to science | MIT Technology Review
DeepMind says its AlphaFold tool has successfully predicted the structure of nearly all proteins known to science. The AI lab is offering its datab... (2022)
Heat is bad for plant health. Here’s how gene editing could help | MIT Technology Review
Shoring up plants’ defenses could protect crops from rising temperatures caused by climate change. (2022)
How rice gene edited with CRISPR could help tackle climate change - The Verge
Using gene-editing technology CRISPR, a group of researchers aims to develop crops that can help in the fight against climate change. The effort to... (2022)
Investing in SCiFi Foods - engineering lab-grown cultivated meat - a16z | Andreessen Horowitz
One of the greatest challenges the world faces today is how to sustainably feed our ever-growing global population without compromising the environ... (2022)
The “Google of genomics” meets the techbashers of antitrust | The Economist
Has Illumina found the holy GRAIL? | Business (2021)
Mexico is phasing out imports of glyphosate and GMO corn. Impact on U.S. trade
President López Obrador’s decree could forge the “hope at home” U.S. officials espouse. (2021)
Single bee has cloned itself millions of times over the past three decades
Single bee is making an immortal clone army thanks to a genetic fluke | Live Science (2021)
The Human Genome Is—Finally!—Complete - The Atlantic
The Human Genome Project left 8 percent of our DNA unexplored. Now, for the first time, those enigmatic regions have been revealed. (2021)
FDA approves first test of CRISPR to correct genetic defect causing sickle cell disease | Berkeley News
UC scientists and physicians hope to permanently cure patients of sickle cell disease by using CRISPR-Cas9 to replace a defective gene with the nor... (2021)
Opinion | Should we edit our children’s genes? Would it be cruel not to? - The New York Times
Humanity’s Awesome, Terrifying Takeover of Evolution Walter Isaacson and Ezra Klein discuss the implications of humanity’s awesome, terrifying ... (2021)
Genetic Engineering Trees: The Demise and Potential Revival of the American Chestnut | Sierra Club
Before a disastrous blight, the American chestnut was a keystone species in eastern forests. Could genetic engineering help bring it back? (2021)
Million-year-old mammoth genomes shatter record for oldest ancient DNA
Permafrost-preserved teeth, up to 1.6 million years old, identify a new kind of mammoth in Siberia. (2021)
Scientists Are Working on mRNA Vaccines for HIV, Flu, Cancer and More - POZ
The technology used in COVID-19 vaccines may also be used to prevent other viral infections and to treat cancer and multiple sclerosis. (2021)
First vaccine to fully immunize against malaria builds on pandemic-driven RNA tech - The Academic Times
Consistently ranked as one of the leading causes of death around the world, malaria doesn’t have an effective vaccine yet. But researchers have inv... (2021)
The same covid-19 mutations are appearing in different places | Graphic detail | The Economist
Convergent evolution may make travel restrictions redundant (2021)
Francisco Partners is acquiring MyHeritage, sources say for $600M – TechCrunch
Genealogy tracking online is a big business, and today comes some M&A news for one of the bigger names in the field. TechCrunch has learned and con... (2021)
Ancestry says it fought two police requests to search its DNA database – TechCrunch
The DNA profiling company said it challenged the requests, which were later withdrawn. (2021)
Incredible time-lapse shows a single cell transforming into a salamander
A filmmaker has captured mesmerizing and intimate details of an alpine newt's first days. (2019)
Reverse Engineering the source code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine
Welcome! In this post, we’ll be taking a character-by-character look at the source code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine. I want t... (2020)
64x Bio Emerges from Stealth to Drive an Evolution in Cell and Gene Therapy Manufacturing
64x Bio announced today that they are emerging from stealth and are describing for the first time their proprietary VectorSelectTM platform and vision (2020)
Match and mix - How hybrids have upturned evolutionary theory
The origin of species is more complex than Darwin envisaged (2020)
New CRISPR-based test detects coronavirus in just 5 minutes
CRISPR-based approach is much faster than current diagnostics, but does have some limitations (2020)
Trump’s antibody treatment was tested using cells originally derived from an abortion
This week, President Donald Trump extolled the cutting-edge coronavirus treatments he received as “miracles coming down from God.” If that’s true, ... (2020)
The major genetic risk factor for severe COVID-19 is inherited from Neanderthals
A recent genetic association study1 identified a gene cluster on chromosome 3 as a risk locus for respiratory failure upon SARS-CoV-2 infection. A ... (2020)
Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates
Sometimes it’s easier to rewrite genetics than update Excel Scientists have renamed 27 human genes to stop Microsoft Excel misreading them as da... (2020)
Can cells think? | Michael Levin
We know that humans are an intelligent species. But this biologist breaks down the intelligence of each of our cells — and it will blow your mind.. (2023)
Drew Berry: Animations of unseeable biology - TED talk
We have no ways to directly observe molecules and what they do -- Drew Berry wants to change that. At TEDxSydney he shows his scientifical... (2023)
DeepMind’s AlphaFold AI: Doing Years Of Research In Minutes!
The paper "Highly accurate protein structure prediction with #Alp... (2023)
Genetic Selection is Happening Already. Here's How it Works.
Genetic Selection is Happening Already. Here's How it Works. (2023)
How to biohack your cells to fight cancer - TEDed
Check out the science of biohacking, where biologists go into a patient’s genetic code and reprogram their immune system to recognize and fight can... (2022)
DeepMind AlphaFold: A Gift To Humanity! - Two Minute Papers
DeepMind AlphaFold: A Gift To Humanity! (2022)
TED: After billions of years of monotony, the universe is waking up | David Deutsch
Visit TED.com to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized Talk recommendations and more.Theoretical physicist D... (2021)
Human Evolution: Crash Course Big History #6
In which John Green and Hank Green teach you about how human primates moved out of Africa and turned Earth into a real-life Planet of the Apes. And... (2020)
DNA Structure and Replication: Crash Course Biology #10
Hank introduces us to that wondrous molecule deoxyribonucleic acid - also known as DNA - and explains how it replicates itself in our cells. Crash ... (2020)
Biologist Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty - CRISPR | WIRED
WIRED 6.29M subscribers CRISPR is a new area of biomedical science that enables gene editing and could be the key to eventually curing disease... (2020)
KQED Learn | Discussions: The Gene : An Intimate History and Eugenics
How Can We Avoid the Mistakes of the Past? Eugenics is the idea that people can improve humanity by regulating who is allowed to reproduce and ... (2020)
The Inner Life of the Cell
Harvard University selected XVIVO to develop an animation that would take their cellular biology students on a journey through the microscopic worl... (2019)
Engineering the Genome: Challenges and Opportunities in the Next Wave of Medicine - a16z
Technology’s ability to rewrite our genetic code is becoming one of the most powerful therapeutic arsenals of all time. We’ve gone from small molec... (2019)
What is DNA and How Does it Work?
Stated Clearly Published on Aug 30, 2012 Issues of genetics and DNA are constantly cropping up in the news from food production and health, to ... (2019)
Heredity: Crash Course Biology #9
CrashCourse Published on Mar 26, 2012 Hank and his brother John discuss heredity via the gross example of relative ear wax moistness. Crash Co... (2019)
Millions protest genetically modified food - 2013 - CNN
Jake Tapper reports on the controversy that surrounds GMOs and one of the companies that makes them. For more CNN videos, visit our site ... (2019)
Europe's new approach to GMOs
Long divided over GMOs - are they a threat or an opportunity? - the EU has now found a way forward. (2019)
Genetic Engineering Will Change Everything Forever – CRISPR
Designer babies, the end of diseases, genetically modified humans that never age. Outrageous things that used to be science fiction are suddenly be... (2019)
Are GMOs Good or Bad? Genetic Engineering & Our Food
Are GMOs bad for your health? Or is this fear unfounded? Support us on Patreon so we can make more videos (and get cool stuff in return): https://w... (2019)
Can We Program Our Cells? - Michael Elowitz, a professor of biology and bioengineering at Caltech - The Joy of Why
Listen to this episode from The Joy of Why on Spotify. Making living cells blink fluorescently like party lights may sound frivolous. But the demon... (2023)
Author Walter Isaacson On The Gene Editing Revolution - Fresh Air | NPR
Listen to this episode from Fresh Air on Spotify. Biochemist Jennifer Doudna, the subject of Walter Isaacson's new biography 'The Code Breaker,' sh... (2021)
'Ghost' DNA In West Africans Complicates Story Of Human Origins
Modern genomes from Nigeria and Sierra Leone show signals that scientists call "ghost" DNA — from an unknown human ancestor. That means that prehis... (2020)
Most U.S. Dairy Cows Are Descended From Just 2 Bulls. That's Not Good - NPR
NPR science correspondent Dan Charles explains why most of the dairy cows in America are descended from just two bulls, creating a lack of genetic ... (2019)
U.S. Dairy Cows Are Very Genetically Similar. That's Not Good : The Salt : NPR
The drive to make more milk has had an unsavory side effect: Cows have become more genetically similar and less fertile. Scientists are trying to r... (2019)
CRISPR Gene-Editing Tool: 1st Patient With Genetic Disorder Treated in the USA (2019) - NPR
Victoria Gray, 34, of Forest, Miss., has sickle cell disease. She is the first patient ever to be publicly identified as being involved in a study ... (2019)
Scientists Have 'Hacked Photosynthesis' In Search Of More Productive Crops - NPR
Scientists have re-engineered photosynthesis, a foundation of life on Earth, creating genetically modified plants that grow faster and bigger. They... (2019)
CRISPR In China: Cancer Treatment With Gene Editing Underway : NPR
More than a third of patients with cancer of the esophagus responded to experimental treatment in China with the gene-editing technique CRISPR. Sev... (2018)
Morality, Foresight, and Human Flourishing: An Introduction to Existential Risks - by Phil Torres
Morality, Foresight, and Human Flourishing has 7 ratings and 1 review. Tucker said: Good overview of how to go about thinking of existential risks ... (2018)