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US Official Claims China Is Testing Biologically Enhanced Supersoldiers
Rebuild Him John Ratcliffe, the U.S. director of national intelligence, says that China is using CRISPR technology to try and gene-hack members of the military into supersoldiers. It's a provocative...
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CRISPR-Based COVID-19 Tests Could Work in Just 5 Minutes
Ultrasensitive COVID-19 tests based on the popular gene-editing technique CRISPR could be just around the corner, IEEE Spectrum reports. While other rapid antigen tests can be completed in less than...
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Vladimir Putin Is Reportedly Terrified of Gene-Hacking Experiments
Russian President Vladimir Putin is reportedly horrified that human gene editing will result in someone developing a weapon capable of wiping out entire populations and demographics at once. Insiders...
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CRISPR Has a Problem: It Mangles DNA It Wasn't Supposed to Touch
The gene-editing technology CRISPR Cas9 may not be the ultra-precise tool that researchers long thought it to be. A growing body of evidence suggests that the tech, which allows researchers to remove,...
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Scientists Gene-Hacked Monkeys to Fix Their Cholesterol
In an ambitious new gene-hacking study, scientists used CRISPR base editors to shut off the gene that produces low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol in monkeys — an important step toward someday...
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WHO Says Gene-Hacking Superhumans Should Be Illegal
After the now-infamous scientist He Jiankui experimentally gene-hacked several human embryos and allowed them to be born as babies, the genetics research community began to scramble to for new ground...
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Astronauts Use CRISPR Gene Editing in Space for First Time Ever
CRISPR on the ISS Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) has successfully leveraged CRISPR gene editing in space for the first time ever. The team of researchers were able to leverage...
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The Army Gene-Hacked Disease-Spreading Mosquitoes To Make Them Infertile
Pest Control Scientists working for the US Army Research Laboratory found a new way to genetically alter the mosquito Aedes aegypti in a way that can decimate wild populations, hopefully keeping...
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Gene Therapy Restored Vision To Patient Who Hadn't Seen Colors in Years
An experimental gene therapy that involves injecting CRISPR therapy directly into visually impaired patients' eyeballs has vastly improved most volunteers' vision — even allowing some to see color more...
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Could We Gene Hack Ourselves to Be Blissed Out Sex Maniacs, Like Our Distant...
This week, we’re pleased to bring you a different version of Futurism, containing stories from the horizon of hedonism. Welcome to The Science of Pleasure. In collaboration with our friends over at MEL...
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Expert Says Children Will Soon Have More than Two Biological Parents
It may sound like something out of utopian sci-fi, but a prominent futurist says we're not too far off from breaking the genetic mold that has until now comprised the building blocks of human life. In...
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Scientists Call for Special Facility to Care for Genetically Modified Children
Researchers in China believe that we need to do more to protect the children who have been born with edited genomes — and propose building a facility to care for and study them. Qiu Renzong, professor...
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Scientist Who Genetically Modified Human Babies Released From Prison
Gene Hackman Remember He Jiankui, the Chinese scientist who shocked the world when it emerged in late 2018 that he had used CRISPR to tinker with the genetic code of IVF embryos, leading to the birth...
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CRISPR Creator Says We Could Engineer Species to Fight Climate Change
Sucking It Up One of the inventors of CRISPR gene editing, a groundbreaking new method to engineer genetic code, believes we could use the same techniques to tackle some of the biggest issues facing...
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Scientists Gene Hack Hamsters Into Hyper-Aggressive Monsters
Hamster Brawl Scientists say that a little gene hacking turned adorable hamsters into vicious monstrosities. Researchers at Georgia State University may have published the scientific understatement of...
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Doctors Gene-Edit Patient's Liver to Make Less Cholesterol
A team of researchers from US biotech company Verve Therapeutics have injected a gene-editing serum into a live patient's liver with the goal of lowering their cholesterol, a watershed moment in the...
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This CRISPR Researcher Says Gene Editing Isn't Playing God
CRISPR — the gene editing technology developed by researchers Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier, who won the Nobel Prize for their achievement — is a remarkable, almost otherworldly...
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Scientist Suggests Tweaks for Genetically Altered Supersoldiers
In a story about an upcoming gene editing conference, one of the summit's organizers seemed to have a lot of thoughts about how militaries might use gene editing to create supersoldiers. A...
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Scientist Who Gene Edited Human Babies Had Plan to Transform Humankind
In a moving new profile, The New Yorker documented the literally life-changing ambitions of He Jiankui, the Chinese scientist whose CRISPR gene editing of human babies led to infamy and a prison...
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Patient Dies After Being Gene-Edited to Have Lower Cholesterol
Researchers have been able to reduce dramatically the level of bad cholesterol in human subjects after injecting them with an experimental gene editing treatment, according to the science journal...
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