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This company plans to transplant pig hearts into babies next year | MIT Technology Review
eGenesis has started transplanting gene-edited pigs’ hearts into infant baboons—and humans may be next. The company, based in Cambridge, Massach... (2023)
Opinion | Should we edit our children’s genes? Would it be cruel not to? - The New York Times
Humanity’s Awesome, Terrifying Takeover of Evolution Walter Isaacson and Ezra Klein discuss the implications of humanity’s awesome, terrifying ... (2021)
64x Bio Emerges from Stealth to Drive an Evolution in Cell and Gene Therapy Manufacturing
64x Bio announced today that they are emerging from stealth and are describing for the first time their proprietary VectorSelectTM platform and vision (2020)
New CRISPR-based test detects coronavirus in just 5 minutes
CRISPR-based approach is much faster than current diagnostics, but does have some limitations (2020)
Opinion | Why Are You Publicly Sharing Your Child’s DNA Information? - The New York Times
By uploading their children’s genetic information on public websites, parents are forever exposing their personal health data. (2020)
Crispr Takes Its First Steps in Editing Genes to Fight Cancer - The New York Times (2019)
So far, a procedure that turbocharges the immune system to attack tumors seems safe, but it’s too soon to tell whether it helps patients. (2019)
Scientists are making human-monkey hybrids in China - MIT Technology Review
In a controversial first, a team of researchers have been creating embryos that are part human and part monkey, reports the Spanish daily El País.D... (2019)
Controversial U.S. bill would lift Supreme Court ban on patenting human genes | Science | AAAS
Backers say changes needed to spur innovation, but critics disagree (2019)
Scientists Created Bacteria With a Synthetic Genome. Is This Artificial Life? - The New York Times
In a milestone for synthetic biology, colonies of E. coli thrive with DNA constructed from scratch by humans, not nature. (2019)
What Is CRISPR? - CB Insights
CRISPR. What is it? And why is the scientific community so fascinated by its potential applications? Starting with its definition, we explain how t... (2019)
Opinion | The Dangers of DNA Testing - The New York Times
In a new study, 74 out of 108 crime laboratories implicated an innocent person in a hypothetical bank robbery. (2018)
The Market for Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Health Testing : Market Research Report
The Market for Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Health Testing The Market for Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Health Testing The growth of the direct-to-co... (2018)
Deleting Your Online DNA Data Is Brutally Difficult - Bloomberg
A reporter’s effort to erase her genetic footprint gets snared in a thicket of policies and rules. (2018)
The Very First Animal Appeared Amid an Explosion of DNA - The New York Times
Nobody knows what the first animal looked like. But many of its genes are still present in humans today... (2018)
How Cheese, Wheat and Alcohol Shaped Human Evolution | Science | Smithsonian
Over time, diet causes dramatic changes to our anatomy, immune systems and maybe skin color... (2018)
CS 522: Machine Learning AI Approaches to Decode the Human Genome | Stanford
Professor Anshul Kundaje, Seminar in AI in Healthcare (course notes) In 2003, after 10 years of work, costing about 3 billion dollars, we got a... (2018)
Your Next Pet Could Be a Glowing Rabbit | WIRED
Biohacker Josie Zyner’s new company, Los Angeles Project, is creating a new generation of gene-edited pets. The team has used Crispr to add a gene... (2025)
The Human Genome Project transformed biology | The Economist
The human genome project at 20. Epic ambition. The genomics revolution has transformed biology. Its work it’s not over yet Yet for genomics to b... (2023)
Why Applying Machine Learning to Biology is Hard – But Worth It | a16z Future
Computational genomics pioneer Jimmy Lin explains what many machine learning-focused biotech companies and get wrong about hiring, data, and commun... (2022)
DeepMind’s protein-folding AI has solved a 50-year-old grand challenge of biology | MIT Technology Review
DeepMind has already notched up a streak of wins, showcasing AIs that have learned to play a variety of complex games with superhuman skill, from G... (2022)
DeepMind has predicted the structure of almost every protein known to science | MIT Technology Review
DeepMind says its AlphaFold tool has successfully predicted the structure of nearly all proteins known to science. The AI lab is offering its datab... (2022)
Heat is bad for plant health. Here’s how gene editing could help | MIT Technology Review
Shoring up plants’ defenses could protect crops from rising temperatures caused by climate change. (2022)
How rice gene edited with CRISPR could help tackle climate change - The Verge
Using gene-editing technology CRISPR, a group of researchers aims to develop crops that can help in the fight against climate change. The effort to... (2022)
Investing in SCiFi Foods - engineering lab-grown cultivated meat - a16z | Andreessen Horowitz
One of the greatest challenges the world faces today is how to sustainably feed our ever-growing global population without compromising the environ... (2022)
The “Google of genomics” meets the techbashers of antitrust | The Economist
Has Illumina found the holy GRAIL? | Business (2021)
Mexico is phasing out imports of glyphosate and GMO corn. Impact on U.S. trade
President López Obrador’s decree could forge the “hope at home” U.S. officials espouse. (2021)
Single bee has cloned itself millions of times over the past three decades
Single bee is making an immortal clone army thanks to a genetic fluke | Live Science (2021)
The Human Genome Is—Finally!—Complete - The Atlantic
The Human Genome Project left 8 percent of our DNA unexplored. Now, for the first time, those enigmatic regions have been revealed. (2021)
FDA approves first test of CRISPR to correct genetic defect causing sickle cell disease | Berkeley News
UC scientists and physicians hope to permanently cure patients of sickle cell disease by using CRISPR-Cas9 to replace a defective gene with the nor... (2021)
Genetic Engineering Trees: The Demise and Potential Revival of the American Chestnut | Sierra Club
Before a disastrous blight, the American chestnut was a keystone species in eastern forests. Could genetic engineering help bring it back? (2021)
Can cells think? | Michael Levin
We know that humans are an intelligent species. But this biologist breaks down the intelligence of each of our cells — and it will blow your mind.. (2023)
Drew Berry: Animations of unseeable biology - TED talk
We have no ways to directly observe molecules and what they do -- Drew Berry wants to change that. At TEDxSydney he shows his scientifical... (2023)
DeepMind’s AlphaFold AI: Doing Years Of Research In Minutes!
The paper "Highly accurate protein structure prediction with #Alp... (2023)
Genetic Selection is Happening Already. Here's How it Works.
Genetic Selection is Happening Already. Here's How it Works. (2023)
How to biohack your cells to fight cancer - TEDed
Check out the science of biohacking, where biologists go into a patient’s genetic code and reprogram their immune system to recognize and fight can... (2022)
DeepMind AlphaFold: A Gift To Humanity! - Two Minute Papers
DeepMind AlphaFold: A Gift To Humanity! (2022)
TED: After billions of years of monotony, the universe is waking up | David Deutsch
Visit TED.com to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized Talk recommendations and more.Theoretical physicist D... (2021)
Human Evolution: Crash Course Big History #6
In which John Green and Hank Green teach you about how human primates moved out of Africa and turned Earth into a real-life Planet of the Apes. And... (2020)
DNA Structure and Replication: Crash Course Biology #10
Hank introduces us to that wondrous molecule deoxyribonucleic acid - also known as DNA - and explains how it replicates itself in our cells. Crash ... (2020)
Biologist Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty - CRISPR | WIRED
WIRED 6.29M subscribers CRISPR is a new area of biomedical science that enables gene editing and could be the key to eventually curing disease... (2020)
The Inner Life of the Cell
Harvard University selected XVIVO to develop an animation that would take their cellular biology students on a journey through the microscopic worl... (2019)
Engineering the Genome: Challenges and Opportunities in the Next Wave of Medicine - a16z
Technology’s ability to rewrite our genetic code is becoming one of the most powerful therapeutic arsenals of all time. We’ve gone from small molec... (2019)
What is DNA and How Does it Work?
Stated Clearly Published on Aug 30, 2012 Issues of genetics and DNA are constantly cropping up in the news from food production and health, to ... (2019)
Heredity: Crash Course Biology #9
CrashCourse Published on Mar 26, 2012 Hank and his brother John discuss heredity via the gross example of relative ear wax moistness. Crash Co... (2019)
Millions protest genetically modified food - 2013 - CNN
Jake Tapper reports on the controversy that surrounds GMOs and one of the companies that makes them. For more CNN videos, visit our site ... (2019)
Europe's new approach to GMOs
Long divided over GMOs - are they a threat or an opportunity? - the EU has now found a way forward. (2019)
Genetic Engineering Will Change Everything Forever – CRISPR
Designer babies, the end of diseases, genetically modified humans that never age. Outrageous things that used to be science fiction are suddenly be... (2019)
Are GMOs Good or Bad? Genetic Engineering & Our Food
Are GMOs bad for your health? Or is this fear unfounded? Support us on Patreon so we can make more videos (and get cool stuff in return): https://w... (2019)
KQED Learn | Discussions: The Gene : An Intimate History and Eugenics
How Can We Avoid the Mistakes of the Past? Eugenics is the idea that people can improve humanity by regulating who is allowed to reproduce and ... (2020)
Author Walter Isaacson On The Gene Editing Revolution - Fresh Air | NPR
Listen to this episode from Fresh Air on Spotify. Biochemist Jennifer Doudna, the subject of Walter Isaacson's new biography 'The Code Breaker,' sh... (2021)
Can We Program Our Cells? - Michael Elowitz, a professor of biology and bioengineering at Caltech - The Joy of Why
Listen to this episode from The Joy of Why on Spotify. Making living cells blink fluorescently like party lights may sound frivolous. But the demon... (2023)
Morality, Foresight, and Human Flourishing: An Introduction to Existential Risks - by Phil Torres
Morality, Foresight, and Human Flourishing has 7 ratings and 1 review. Tucker said: Good overview of how to go about thinking of existential risks ... (2018)