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Medicine
fromNature
1 day ago

Personalized CRISPR therapies could soon reach thousands - here's how

FDA proposed a 'plausible mechanism pathway' to enhance development of personalized genetic therapies for rare disorders.
fromwww.nature.com
1 week ago

Editorial Expression of Concern: Creation of human tumour cells with defined genetic elements

Concerns were raised regarding a potential duplication of two bands in Fig. 1b. Due to the age of the article, the raw data were not available.
#gene-therapy
Medicine
fromwww.npr.org
7 hours ago

Gene therapy for a rare type of deafness shows lasting results

An experimental gene therapy shows promise in restoring hearing for individuals born with a rare form of deafness.
Medicine
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 days ago

The Oscar of science' awarded to scientists behind genetic treatment that restores lost vision win

Jean Bennett and Albert Maguire received the Breakthrough prize for developing Luxturna, the first approved gene therapy for blindness.
Artificial intelligence
fromFast Company
1 week ago

AI is rewriting the rules of biological experiments, but safety regulations aren't keeping up

AI is autonomously designing and running biological experiments, outpacing current governance systems meant to regulate these capabilities.
Medicine
fromPsychology Today
3 hours ago

Beyond the Body: Notes on a Post-Biological Future

Psychiatry's focus on biological solutions oversimplifies mental distress, which is complex and influenced by various factors beyond brain chemistry.
#gene-editing
Medicine
fromArs Technica
1 week ago

Clinical trial shows gene editing works for -Thalassaemia, too

An improved gene editing system reactivates a fetal hemoglobin gene to treat β-Thalassaemia, building on CRISPR's success with sickle-cell anemia.
Medicine
fromArs Technica
1 week ago

Clinical trial shows gene editing works for -Thalassaemia, too

An improved gene editing system reactivates a fetal hemoglobin gene to treat β-Thalassaemia, building on CRISPR's success with sickle-cell anemia.
#genetics
Cannabis
fromFuturism
2 weeks ago

Scientists Gene Hacked a Plant So It Grows Five Types of Psychoactive Drugs at Once

Genetically engineered tobacco plants can produce five different psychedelics, potentially enabling sustainable production for therapeutic use.
Medicine
fromwww.businessinsider.com
2 days ago

DARPA says its powdered blood for future warfare works in animals. Now comes the hard part.

DARPA has developed a powdered blood substitute and seeks partners for testing to make it a viable battlefield tool by 2029.
#cloning
Science
fromFuturism
3 weeks ago

A Startup Has Been Quietly Pitching Cloned Human Bodies to Transfer Your Brain Into

Cloning efforts have evolved from animals to controversial human embryo models, with ambitions for brainless human clones for organ transplants.
OMG science
fromFuturism
3 weeks ago

Scientists Cloned a Mouse, Then Cloned the Clone, Et Cetera. The Results Were Horrific

Cloning mice for 58 generations led to immediate death of offspring, revealing limits to mammalian cloning.
OMG science
fromNature
4 weeks ago

Can a mouse be cloned indefinitely? Decades-long experiment has answers

Asexual reproduction in mice is unsustainable due to accumulating mutations, limiting the potential for successful cloning.
Science
fromFuturism
3 weeks ago

A Startup Has Been Quietly Pitching Cloned Human Bodies to Transfer Your Brain Into

Cloning efforts have evolved from animals to controversial human embryo models, with ambitions for brainless human clones for organ transplants.
OMG science
fromFuturism
3 weeks ago

Scientists Cloned a Mouse, Then Cloned the Clone, Et Cetera. The Results Were Horrific

Cloning mice for 58 generations led to immediate death of offspring, revealing limits to mammalian cloning.
OMG science
fromNature
4 weeks ago

Can a mouse be cloned indefinitely? Decades-long experiment has answers

Asexual reproduction in mice is unsustainable due to accumulating mutations, limiting the potential for successful cloning.
#aging
OMG science
fromNature
2 weeks ago

This method to reverse cellular ageing is about to be tested in humans

Yuancheng Ryan Lu's research on reprogramming retinal nerve cells could lead to restoring eyesight and rejuvenating organs.
OMG science
fromNature
2 weeks ago

This method to reverse cellular ageing is about to be tested in humans

Yuancheng Ryan Lu's research on reprogramming retinal nerve cells could lead to restoring eyesight and rejuvenating organs.
#ai
fromFuturism
3 days ago
Medicine

Researchers Invented a Fake Disease to Trick AI and the Funniest Possible Thing Happened

Medicine
fromFuturism
3 days ago

Researchers Invented a Fake Disease to Trick AI and the Funniest Possible Thing Happened

A fake disease called bixonimania was created to demonstrate how AI can be misled by false information in scientific literature.
Medicine
fromFast Company
2 weeks ago

AI is coming for superbugs

AI can significantly enhance antibiotic discovery, addressing the urgent global health crisis of antibiotic resistance.
Silicon Valley
fromSilicon Canals
3 weeks ago

Silicon Valley startup backed by Tim Draper pitches growing brainless human clones for organ harvesting and brain transplants - Silicon Canals

A Silicon Valley startup is developing brainless cloned human bodies for organ sourcing and potential brain transplants.
#genomics
fromTNW | Artificial-Intelligence
5 days ago

OpenAI launches GPT-Rosalind, an AI model for life sciences research

GPT-Rosalind is designed to support evidence synthesis, hypothesis generation, experimental planning, and multi-step scientific workflows across biochemistry, genomics, and protein engineering.
Medicine
fromNature
1 month ago

In vivo site-specific engineering to reprogram T cells - Nature

Using CRISPR-Cas9 and adeno-associated virus (AAV)-mediated homology-directed repair, we targeted CAR integration into the endogenous human TCR alpha locus (TRAC). TRAC-CAR T cells display dynamic CAR expression that delays exhaustion and improves tumour control in xenograft and immunocompetent models. This work has been critical for the development of allogeneic CAR T cell therapy, as it disrupts the TCR after transgene insertion—a necessary step to limit graft-versus-host disease.
Cancer
Medicine
fromNature
6 days ago

Revealed: how male and female brain cells differ in gene activity

Researchers found significant gene activity differences between male and female brains, which may explain varying risks for certain neurological conditions.
Science
fromNature
4 weeks ago

Zombieland: Genome transplant brings 'dead' bacteria back to life

Researchers have revived 'dead' bacterial cells by replacing their DNA with a working genome from another species, advancing genome engineering.
Medicine
fromNature
1 week ago

Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution

Human evolution has accelerated over the past 10,000 years, with significant gene variants identified in ancient populations from western Eurasia.
Artificial intelligence
fromFortune
1 month ago

Could data from 100 million species help cure disease? One startup is betting on it | Fortune

Basecamp Research launches the Trillion Gene Atlas to map genetic diversity across 100 million species, aiming to expand biological knowledge 100-fold through AI-powered genomic data collection.
fromNextgov.com
1 month ago

Tech bills of the week: Improved biological data for research; Section 702 reform; and more

Ushering in the Golden Age of Innovation is about more than just winning the global tech race - it's about securing the safety and prosperity of our country for generations to come. Our bill is an important step in this effort and will better ensure the United States has the infrastructure in place to lead the 21st century.
EU data protection
Science
fromNature
1 month ago

Synthetic circuits for cell ratio control - Nature

Synthetic biology enables artificial cell differentiation and division of labor by engineering genetic and epigenetic circuits that mimic natural stem cell asymmetric division processes.
Medicine
fromNature
2 weeks ago

Saturation editing of RNU4-2 reveals distinct dominant and recessive disorders - Nature

De novo variants in RNU4-2 cause ReNU syndrome, a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by developmental delays and other severe symptoms.
Left-wing politics
fromTruthout
1 month ago

Reproductive Tech That Promises Smart Babies Is Peddling Soft Eugenics

Reproductive tech companies now offer embryo genetic screening for intelligence and disease, raising concerns about eugenics, disability discrimination, and wealth-based genetic enhancement.
Medicine
fromFast Company
2 weeks ago

The AI drug revolution is real but the hype around it isn't

AI may revolutionize drug discovery, but it cannot simplify the complexities of human biology or guarantee successful treatments.
#de-extinction
OMG science
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Can scientists really resurrect the dodo? Inside the company that says they can

Colossal Biosciences is using ancient DNA and gene editing to resurrect extinct species including dire wolves, woolly mammoths, and dodos, raising questions about the ethics and feasibility of de-extinction technology.
OMG science
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Can scientists really resurrect the dodo? Inside the company that says they can

Colossal Biosciences is using ancient DNA and gene editing to resurrect extinct species including dire wolves, woolly mammoths, and dodos, raising questions about the ethics and feasibility of de-extinction technology.
Philosophy
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Is Transhumanism the Future or Our Downfall?

Transhumanism uses emerging technologies to augment human capacities, offering longevity and enhanced abilities while raising profound ethical, control, and societal risk questions.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

I clicked on a button and everything changed': how a DNA test turned my life upside-down

It was another detail that the rest of the family apparently knew but had never told me; they thought I already knew. The biology mattered less to me than the secret. Dad had been adopted, it turned out. A classic affliction of the 1950s, in which young, unmarried couples were forced to give away their newborn babies.
Books
Venture
from24/7 Wall St.
1 month ago

Forget AI. This Biotech Stock's Taking Off Right Now

AI stocks face correction risk due to rising capital expenditures without proportional profits, making biotech an undervalued alternative for AI-driven growth exposure.
Silicon Valley
fromKqed
1 month ago

How South San Francisco Became the Birthplace of Biotechnology | KQED

South San Francisco transformed from an industrial meatpacking and steel manufacturing hub into the world's biotechnology capital, hosting over 250 biotech companies including Genentech.
Science
fromNature
1 month ago

From cancer to Alzheimer's: could a renewed focus on energy transform biomedicine?

Energy flow, governed by universal physics principles, provides a more fundamental understanding of biological processes and disease than molecular mechanisms alone.
fromNews Center
2 months ago

AI Model May Improve RNA Sequencing Research - News Center

Scientists in the laboratory of Rendong Yang, PhD, associate professor of Urology, have developed a new large language model that can interpret transcriptomic data in cancer cell lines more accurately than conventional approaches, as detailed in a recent study published in Nature Communications. Long-read RNA sequencing technologies have transformed transcriptomics research by detecting complex RNA splicing and gene fusion events that have often been missed by conventional short-read RNA-sequencing methods.
Cancer
fromNature
1 month ago

AI tools can design genomes. Will they upend how life evolves?

Biology is undergoing a transformation. After centuries of studying life as it evolves naturally, researchers are now using a combination of computation and genome engineering to intervene, generating new proteins and even whole bacteria from scratch. The use of artificial-intelligence tools to design biological components, an approach known as generative biology, is set to turbocharge this area of research. Just last year, scientists used AI-assisted design to produce artificial genes that can be expressed in mammalian cells.
Science
Cancer
fromFuturism
1 month ago

Bacteria Engineered to Eat Tumors From the Inside

Researchers engineered Clostridium sporogenes bacteria to consume tumor cells from inside, offering a potential alternative to traditional cancer treatments.
Medicine
fromwww.bbc.com
1 month ago

Lab-grown food pipe offers new hope for young patients

Scientists have successfully grown and transplanted fully functioning food pipes in mini pigs, offering hope for patients with oesophageal conditions.
Agriculture
fromRealagriculture
1 month ago

High resolution imaging sharpens selection decisions in plant breeding

Remote sensing and digital imaging with AI enable early detection of crop stress and precise plant trait measurement beyond traditional field scouting capabilities.
fromArs Technica
1 month ago

Have we leapt into commercial genetic testing without understanding it?

Martschenko's argument is largely that genetic research and data have almost always been used thus far as a justification to further entrench extant social inequalities. But we know the solutions to many of the injustices in our world-trying to lift people out of poverty, for example-and we certainly don't need more genetic research to implement them. Trejo's point is largely that more information is generally better than less.
Science
Agriculture
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Genetically modified purple tomatoes get green light to be sold in Australia

Purple Bliss tomatoes engineered to produce anthocyanin pigments were approved for sale and cultivation in Australia, with regulators finding negligible health and environmental risk.
Medicine
fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

Everyone Is a Biohacker Now

Vyleesi, a prescription female libido drug, is being purchased off-label by men through online retailers exploiting 'research use only' disclaimers to circumvent prescription requirements.
Science
fromwww.nature.com
2 months ago

Scalable and multiplexed recorders of gene regulation dynamics across weeks

CytoTape enables multiplexed, genetically encoded, spatiotemporally scalable recording of gene regulation dynamics in single cells for up to three weeks with minute-scale resolution.
OMG science
fromNature
1 month ago

Why 'quantum proteins' could be the next big thing in biology

Fluorescent proteins from crystal jellyfish are being transformed into quantum bits to create highly sensitive quantum sensors for biological applications.
Science
fromMail Online
2 months ago

Scientists use AI to create a virus never seen before

Scientists used AI and gene-assembly tools to create Evo-Φ2147, a novel 11-gene virus designed to kill pathogenic E. coli.
OMG science
fromNature
2 months ago

Regulatory grammar in human promoters uncovered by MPRA-based deep learning - Nature

Massively parallel reporter assays provide cell-type-specific causal training data enabling more direct inference of DNA sequence effects on promoter activity than epigenomic maps.
fromwww.nature.com
1 month ago

Genetically encoded assembly recorder temporally resolves cellular history

GEMINI leverages a computationally designed protein assembly as an intracellular memory device to record the history of individual cells. GEMINI grows predictably within live cells, capturing cellular events as tree-ring-like fluorescent patterns for imaging-based retrospective readout. Absolute chronological information of activity histories is attainable with hour-level accuracy.
Science
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
2 months ago

Google DeepMind unleashes new AI to investigate DNA's dark matter'

AlphaGenome predicts functional effects of mutations in long noncoding DNA sequences up to one million base pairs, helping interpret genomic variants for disease research.
Medicine
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

Their Mutated Genes Were Supposed to Be Harmless

People who carry single-gene mutations for disorders like thalassemia can experience real health effects, including lethargy and fainting, despite being labeled asymptomatic.
Science
fromArs Technica
1 month ago

Large genome model: Open source AI trained on trillions of bases

Evo 2, an AI system trained on trillions of base pairs from all life domains, can identify genes, regulatory sequences, and splice sites in complex genomes including humans.
Science
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

On the Future of Species by Adrian Woolfson review are we on the verge of creating synthetic life?

Humans are on the verge of creating synthetic species that will coexist with natural life, offering major benefits while posing significant ecological and ethical risks.
Science
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
2 months ago

How long you live may depend much more on your genes than scientists thought

Heritability of human lifespan roughly doubles to about 50% when extrinsic mortality is removed, showing a stronger genetic influence on intrinsic aging.
Medicine
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

The very long road from a cancer cure' in mice to one in humans

Promising mouse cancer cures often fail to become safe, effective human drugs; premature media claims can create false patient expectations and hinder responsible research progress.
Science
fromAxios
2 months ago

The narrow slice of data that worries biosecurity experts

Certain biological datasets that materially increase misuse risk should be governed like sensitive health records while most biological data remains openly accessible.
Medicine
fromNature
2 months ago

China's biotech boom: why the nation must collaborate to stay ahead

China leads in drug manufacturing and biotech innovation, but geopolitical scrutiny and moves toward a closed biotech ecosystem threaten scientific collaboration and global medicine access.
fromFortune
2 months ago

AI drug startup Insilico Medicine launches an AI 'gym' to help models like GPT and Qwen be good at science | Fortune

Generalist models "fail miserably" at the benchmarks used to measure how AI performs scientific tasks, Alex Zhavoronkov, Insilico's founder and CEO, told Fortune. " You test it five times at the same task, and you can see that it's so far from state of the art...It's basically worse than random. It's complete garbage." Far better are specialist AI models that are trained directly on chemistry or biology data.
Science
Medicine
fromNature
2 months ago

How DeepMind's genome AI could help solve rare disease mysteries

AlphaGenome uses AI to predict effects of non-coding DNA mutations, helping interpret previously triaged variants and aiding diagnosis of undiagnosed rare diseases.
Science
fromNature
2 months ago

Developmental convergence and divergence in human stem cell models of autism - Nature

Distinct rare mutations and common genetic variation jointly shape ASD risk, yet convergent molecular pathology and early fetal neurodevelopmental mechanisms can be studied using stem-cell models.
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