With their primary goal to advance scientific knowledge, most scientists are not trained or incentivized to think through the societal implications of the technologies they are developing. Even in ...
With their primary goal to advance scientific knowledge, most scientists are not trained or incentivized to think through the societal implications of the technologies they are developing. Even in ...
“Genome editing offers great promise for the future treatment of individuals and families with genetic disorders,” the authors write, “but also raises major technological and ethical issues that must ...
A single injection of a novel CRISPR gene-editing treatment safely and efficiently removes SIV -- a virus related to the AIDS-causing agent HIV -- from the genomes of non-human primates, scientists ...
Using gene editing technology, researchers at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University have, for the first time, successfully excised a segment of HIV-1 DNA - the virus responsible for ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Julia Brown, University of California, San Francisco (THE CONVERSATION) With their ...