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Science report reveals China concealed child’s death in gene editing trial
9+ hour, 30+ min ago (530+ words) During a gene editing clinical trial conducted in China, a six-year-old patient died. The research team concealed the death and went on to publish a paper in a world‑leading journal, triggering a storm over research ethics. According to a…...
Gene activity in blood fluctuates more than expected—and that has consequences for medicine
1+ day, 35+ min ago (16+ words) Medical Xpress...
One Gene, Many Outcomes: New CELF2 Study Brings Precision to Rare Childhood Brain Disorders
1+ day, 11+ min ago (92+ words) A child carries a mutation in a single gene. One develops epilepsy. Another experiences developmental delay without seizures. Until recently, clinicians could identify the shared gene but not explain why the clinical outcomes differed. A new study published in the…...
From Simple Interactions To Complex Biology: A Hypergraph Percolation Perspective
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (201+ words) Astrobiology Web [q-bio.OT] The emergence of biological complexity can be viewed as a transition from fragmented local interactions to extensive integrated organization, raising the question of how large-scale connectivity emerges from simple interacting elements. We investigated whether this transition…...
Gene tech law rewrite has a gaping ethics gap
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (456+ words) Rangahau me te auahatanga Research and innovation Politics and law, Science and technology, Faculty of Science Commentary: As Parliament prepares to rewrite NZ’s outdated gene laws, the missing bioethics oversight leaves critical questions unaddressed argues Lauren Baal. “I don’t know…...
SpudCell Synthetic Cell Grows, Replicates DNA, and Divides
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (783+ words) Michelle Gaulin is an associate editor for Lab Manager. She holds a bachelor of journalism degree from Toronto Metropolitan University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and has two decades of Researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have developed a…...
Rapid microbiology in history: a timeline to USP
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (262+ words) With the US Pharmacopeia’s landmark publication of USP, ATP bioluminescence-based microbiological testing has achieved compendial status for short-life drug products, delivering results at least 50 percent faster than traditional culture methods. Here we trace the remarkable journey of this technology. The…...
News: AI Redesigns Minimal CRISPR Nucleases
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (335+ words) A new artificial intelligence–guided strategy can design highly divergent yet functional variants of TnpB, a compact RNA-guided nuclease that is evolutionarily related to CRISPR-Cas12 enzymes. By combining a structure-based inverse protein-folding model with evolutionary constraints, they generated synthetic nucleases…...
UMMC transforms rare disease diagnosis and care through collaboration
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (1077+ words) By L.A. Warren University of Mississippi Medical Center JACKSON – About one in 10 people in the U.S. lives with a rare disease, and roughly 80 percent of those conditions have an underlying genetic cause, according to the National Organization for Rare Disease. Many…...
Mung Bean Pan-Genome Reveals Key Crop Traits
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (369+ words) The study, published in Nature Genetics, was co-led by researchers at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Murdoch University’s Centre for Crop and Food Innovation. The resulting pan-genome includes more than 75,000 gene families and over 66,000 structural variants. Researchers linked…...