And of course there are other priorities: infectious disease, pandemic control, global health, prevention of childhood diseases. If you ask Bill Gates, he’d have a whole different set of priorities. You could argue that those would actually improve average longevity far more than anti-ageing research, by reducing infant mortality and infectious disease and so on. … Read more
MOSCOW — Russia’s science and higher education ministry has dismissed the head of a prestigious genetics institute who sparked controversy by contending that humans once lived for centuries and that the shorter lives of modern humans are due to their ancestors’ sins, state news agency RIA-Novosti said Thursday. Although the report did not give a … Read more
At the end of 2023, we witnessed an important moment in the history of medicine: For the first time, the US Food and Drug Administration approved a therapy that uses Crispr gene editing. This new therapy was developed by Crispr Therapeutics and Vertex Pharmaceuticals to treat sickle cell disease, an ailment caused by a single-letter … Read more
So far, only nine centers across the US are currently offering Casgevy, which may limit who gets access to it. Vertex says the number of participating sites will grow in the coming weeks and months. And despite the promise of a pain-free future, the grueling process of getting Casgevy may be a deterrent for some. … Read more
While the Novartis trial was happening, Lustig and others were working on ways to restore hearing in genetic forms of hearing loss. In 2019, Lustig and his collaborators showed that OTOF gene therapy could be used to restore hearing in mice lacking the otoferlin protein. A separate group in Germany published similar findings in 2021, … Read more
Today, an international team of researchers shared an extraordinarily detailed atlas of human brain cells, mapping its staggering diversity of neurons. The atlas was published as part of a massive package of 21 papers in the journal Science, each taking complementary approaches to the same overarching questions: What cell types exist in the brain? And … Read more
The genetic testing company 23andMe confirmed on Friday that data from a subset of its users has been compromised. The company said its systems were not breached and that attackers gathered the data by guessing the login credentials of a group of users and then scraping more people’s information from a feature known as DNA … Read more
Not too long ago, a detailed buddy instructed me how a lot he needed to be a mum or dad sooner or later. I requested if he’d think about adopting. All of a sudden, he turned hesitant—pausing earlier than admitting that he’d wish to have youngsters who had been biologically associated. His reply wasn’t uncommon; … Read more
When it got here to the substantial quantity that had been unknown, the staff carried out yet another examine, utilizing one of the best understood (on the genetic degree) organism of all: Drosophila melanogaster. These fruit flies have been the topic of analysis for greater than a century as a result of they’re straightforward and … Read more
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In the meantime, Hanna’s workforce in Israel was rising mouse embryo fashions in the same method, as they described in a paper in Cell that was printed shortly earlier than the paper from Zernicka-Goetz’s group. Hanna’s fashions too had been made solely from embryonic stem cells, a few of which had been genetically coaxed to … Read more