Public Release: 27-Sep-2018 Cornell University ITHACA, N.Y. – To rapidly detect the presence of E. coli in drinking water, Cornell University food scientists now can employ a bacteriophage – a genetically engineered virus – in a test used in… Read More ›
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Widespread declines in life expectancy across high income countries coincide with rising young adult and midlife mortality in the United States
Public Release: 15-Aug-2018 Urgent need to examine systemic causes of declining health in the US BMJ The ongoing opioid epidemic in the United States is a key contributor to the most recent declines in life expectancy, suggests a study published… Read More ›
Stanford scientists discover biomarker for flu susceptibility
Public Release: 13-Jun-2018 Stanford Medicine Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found a way to predict whether someone exposed to the flu virus is likely to become ill. Purvesh Khatri, PhD, associate professor of medicine and of… Read More ›
Oldest bubonic plague genome decoded
Public Release: 8-Jun-2018 A pair of 3,800-year-old skeletons buried together in Russia test positive for a strain of the plague-causing bacterium Yersinia pestis that is ancestral to the strain that caused the Black Death Max Planck Institute for the… Read More ›
Report identifies characteristics of microorganisms most likely to cause a global pandemic
Public Release: 29-May-2018 Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security develop forward-looking framework for special category of the most serious emerging infectious diseases to help inform future preparedness and response efforts Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security … Read More ›
Small Pox produced with mail order DNA and step by step instructions are online
Public Release: 1-Mar-2018 Planning for smallpox outbreak must consider immunosuppression University of New South Wales Unprecedented levels of immunosuppression in countries like Australia and the US must be considered in planning for the real risk of smallpox re-emerging in the… Read More ›
Modification of CRISPR guide RNA structure prevents immune response in target cells
Public Release: 22-Feb-2018 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press IMAGE: In vitro transcribed-CRISPR guide RNAs trigger innate immune response in cells, but can be prevented by removing the triphosphate moiety. Credit: Sojung Kim February 22, 2018 – CRISPR-mediated genome… Read More ›
CRISPR-carrying nanoparticles edit the genome
Public Release: 13-Nov-2017 New delivery system developed by MIT team deletes disease-causing genes and reduces cholesterol Massachusetts Institute of Technology IMAGE: In a new study, MIT researchers have developed nanoparticles that can deliver the CRISPR genome-editing system and specifically… Read More ›
New frontiers for CRISPR: Editing RNA
Public Release: 25-Oct-2017 American Association for the Advancement of Science A new version of the gene editing tool CRISPR can target and edit RNA, scientists report, yielding several advantages over its DNA-editing counterpart. For example, the ability to edit… Read More ›
New way to prevent genetically engineered and unaltered organisms from producing offspring
Public Release: 12-Oct-2017 ‘Synthetic incompatibility’ could boost safety and effectiveness of applying genetic engineering to control invasive species, produce fuel, prevent disease and more University of Minnesota A major obstacle to applying genetic engineering to benefit humans and the… Read More ›
