Original article seen in STAT News Jennifer Doudna reflects on the DNA scissors’ first decade n June 28, 2012, a joint press release went out from the U.S. Department of Energy and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory announcing a new paper in Science from an international team of researchers based there. “Programmable DNA Scissors Found for Bacterial Immune System,” it declared, hinting that the discovery could lead to a new “editing tool for genomes.” That paper, “A Programmable
Original article seen in The Guardian In a new documentary, fans and experts explore the legacy of a song originally shunned before becoming a timeless classic. I can’t think of another song with a trajectory of anything like what happened with Hallelujah,” said the author Alan Light of Leonard Cohen’s ubiquitous magnum opus. “When you think of universal global anthems like Imagine or Bridge Over Troubled Water, they were immediate hits. But Hallelujah was first
Article courtesy of Science For DNA sequencing, this “is the year of the big shake-up,” says Michael Snyder, a systems biologist at Stanford University. Sequencing is crucial to fields from basic biology to virology to human evolution, and its importance keeps growing. Clinicians are clamoring to harness it for early detection of cancer and other diseases, and biologists are finding ever more ways to use genomics to study single cells. But for years, most sequencing has relied on
Original article from Metro UK and Nature. One romantic tryst in the distant past between a Homo Sapien and a Neanderthal may be to blame for over a million deaths related to the coronavirus. At present, the virus has been responsible for 6.3 million deaths worldwide. Many of those who lost their lives may have done so because of a genetic quirk that makes the lungs more susceptible to respiratory infection. Now, according to an Oxford
Article courtesy of MedPageToday Diets high in inflammatory foods were linked with global markers of brain aging and cerebral small vessel disease on MRI, a cross-sectional study showed. Compared with anti-inflammatory diets, those considered pro-inflammatory on the Dietary Inflammatory Index (DII) were associated with smaller total brain volume (beta -0.16, P<0.0001) after adjusting for demographic, clinical, and lifestyle covariates, according to epidemiologist Debora Melo van Lent, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher at UT Health San Antonio in
