by Joe Pomerening | Mar 11, 2019 | Biological Engineering, Biotechnology |
Biologists have chemically-assembled DNA sequences for many years using nucleoside phosphoramidite building blocks that replicate natural bases, though...
by Michael Patterson | Feb 19, 2018 | Biological Engineering, Biotechnology, Human Health, Science Policy |
Researchers published in Cell this week the successful implantation of pig embryos with human pluripontent stem cells. Within the paper researchers also...
by Michael Patterson | Jan 25, 2018 | Biological Engineering, Biotechnology, Emerging Technologies, Science Policy |
This week a group of scientists based at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai published in Cell the first reported successful cloning of a...
by Michael Patterson | Jan 22, 2018 | Biological Engineering, Biotechnology, Government, Human Health, Public Health, Science Policy |
This week saw the publication of a fairly controversial article which entailed the rescue of Horsepox virus. The authors of the paper wanted to 1) push...
by Michael Patterson | Jan 18, 2018 | Biological Engineering, Biotechnology, Public Health, science |
The Cacao tree is reported to be at severe risk due to climate change, fungus, and virus. Not counting the critical economic role Cacao plays for the...
by Michael Patterson | Dec 20, 2017 | Biological Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Government, Human Health, science |
Today the NIH ended their moratorium on GOF research which was enacted in 2014. The moratorium was put in place partially in response to two flu research...
