Editing pigs, mice and mosquitoes may save lives
ON MARCH 15th 2024, a dark brown, gene-edited pig was driven from its home in the Midwest to a medical facility on the outski...
Eat your GE-greens
The slightly soggy ziplock bags are labelled “Red Giant” and “Southern Giant Curl”. Bunches of green leaves, not unlike water...
Gene editing can still change the world
At a now famous conference in 1975, a group of biologists met at Asilomar State Beach in California to discuss a new technolo...
Gene editing has arrived
In early 2005 Rodolphe Barrangou and Philippe Horvath were staring at some very odd bits of repeating genetic code on a compu...
CRISPR cures face cost and safety concerns
FOR 20 YEARS Tamani Harris lived a life of pain. She was born with sickle-cell disease. Her red blood cells, made flat and st...
Merz wins a messy election then calls for independence from America
THERE HAVE been sweeter victories. As expected, Friedrich Merz’s opposition Christian Democrats (cdu) won Germany’s federal e...
Do better shoes help you run faster?
Modern competitive running entered a new era in 2016, when Nike began distributing a prototype trainer to elite runners. The ...
Mexico deploys 10,000 troops to the US border
On the Mexican side of the border that runs between Nogales, Sonora and Nogales, Arizona, a dozen soldiers stand guard. They ...
Epigenetic editors are a gentler form of gene editing
More than a decade ago Sonia Vallabh, a lawyer, and her husband, an engineer, decided to retrain as molecular biologists. The...
Can Europe confront Vladimir Putin’s Russia on its own?
WITHIN HOURS of his party winning national elections, Friedrich Merz, Germany’s presumptive next leader, dropped a bombshell....