Archive for the ‘genetics’ category: Page 488
Nov 5, 2015
Gene editing saves girl dying from leukaemia in world first
Posted by Julius Garcia in categories: biotech/medical, genetics
A one-year-old girl is in remission after receiving an experimental therapy that used genetically engineered T-cells from a donor to kill her cancer.
Japan has developed a new genetically mutated strawberries, and it’s BLUE
Oct 25, 2015
23andMe Launches New Consumer Test Service to Check for Genetic Disorders
Posted by Aleksandar Vukovic in category: genetics
Two years after the FDA took action against the DNA-testing start-up, the company is now offering carrier screening tests for 36 conditions.
Oct 24, 2015
Male And Female Hearts Don’t Age In The Same Way
Posted by Robert James Powles in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, life extension
After a 10 year study of 3000 people, researchers have made the surprising discovery that hearts age differently in men and women.
We need personalised medicine
We know people age differently, both inside and outside. This is down to a complex interplay of genetics and environment, which leads to significant variation in the aging process for all of us. What we didn’t expect was that such a striking difference would emerge between the genders. So what does this mean? Could there be more we’re missing?
Oct 22, 2015
Key to longevity? Sharing DNA info is necessary to extend human life, Google exec says
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, life extension
The much pursued fountain of youth can become a reality if humans agree to share their DNA information, according to Google Ventures’ CEO Bill Maris, who has warned that “we’re all going to die” earlier if we keep our genetic codes secret.
Maris, who aims to digitize DNA, stressed during a Wall Street Journal technology conference in California that our genomes “aren’t really secret,” urging those protective of their genetic information to loosen the reins a bit.
Noting that genetic material is constantly left lying around in public, Maris addressed those who remain nervous about the digitization of DNA. “What are you worried about?” he said on Tuesday, adding that a person could easily gather information by fishing a used cup out of the trash and taking it to a lab for analysis.
Oct 21, 2015
Scientists Have Genetically Engineered Dogs To Make Them More Muscly
Posted by Bryan Gatton in categories: biotech/medical, food, genetics, health, military
As long as they don’t enter the food supply.
First micropigs, now dogs: Scientists in China have used a gene-editing technique to produce the world’s first genetically engineered pooches. Although these two endeavors share scientific roots, with their production aimed at assisting medical research, unlike the teeny tiny pigs, the researchers behind this latest project are not intending to sell their customized animals as pets.
So it probably won’t come as a surprise that the dogs weren’t engineered to be cuter, fluffier or more pocket-sized: they had their DNA tweaked to make them more muscly. The first of many potential edits the team would like to carry out, this was done with the forces in mind.
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Oct 20, 2015
Engineered viruses provide quantum-based enhancement of energy transport
Posted by Thomas Munyon in categories: biotech/medical, engineering, genetics, quantum physics, solar power, sustainability
How cool is this!
Rendering of a virus used in the MIT experiments. The light-collecting centers, called chromophores, are in red, and chromophores that just absorbed a photon of light are glowing white. After the virus is modified to adjust the spacing between the chromophores, energy can jump from one set of chromophores to the next faster and more efficiently. (credit: the researchers and Lauren Alexa Kaye)
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Oct 19, 2015
Chinese Researchers Knock Out Myostatin Gene in Beagles with CRISPR, Generating First Gene-Edited Dogs
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, engineering, genetics
First Gene-Edited Dogs Reported in China.
An extra-muscular beagle has been created through genome engineering. Are we on our way to customizing the DNA of our pets?
Oct 19, 2015
CEO Undergoes Gene Therapy To Reverse Aging
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, life extension
The first attempt at using gene therapy to prevent regular aging allegedly happened last month in what could spell the beginning of a new era in do-it-yourself genetic modification.
CEO and founder of BioViva Sciences USA Inc, Liz Parrish, claims she underwent gene therapy at an undisclosed location in Latin America where she received two forms of treatment, including muscle mass enhancement and therapy to increase the length of the telomeres, the DNA caps which protect the chromosome from deterioration and are associated with longer life span.
Parrish announced in a Reddit AMA that she had gone through the therapy and if successful she plans to roll out a public offering in three to five years despite neither treatment being FDA approved. The results of the therapy are yet unknown and she says she feels no different so far but believes it will be months before any changes occur. If successful her body, in theory, should begin to de-age.