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US baby with rare illness treated with tailor-made gene edit
AFP, Published on 16/05/2025
» WASHINGTON - A US infant with a rare condition has become history's first patient to be treated with a personalised gene-editing technique that raises hopes for other people with obscure illnesses, doctors said Thursday.
US firm brought back extinct dire wolves
AFP, Published on 11/04/2025
» WASHINGTON — They whimper, drink from baby bottles and crawl oh so tentatively -- they look like cute white puppies, not the fruit of a daring project to resuscitate an extinct species.
Sequencing, mRNA, or maybe nanocrystals? Wide-open field for Nobel Chemistry Prize
AFP, Published on 06/10/2021
» STOCKHOLM - Breakthroughs in DNA sequencing, innovative gas storage, nanocrystals or a second chance for mRNA Covid-19 vaccines? Speculators on the Nobel Prize in Chemistry are spoiled for choice ahead of the announcement on Wednesday.
Bioscience firm plans to resurrect extinct woolly mammoth
AFP, Published on 14/09/2021
» WASHINGTON: It is the elephant in the genomics room: can extinct species be resurrected? One bioscience firm insists it can, announcing on Monday its intent to use emerging technology to restore the woolly mammoth to the Arctic tundra.
Economics Prize wraps up unusual Nobel season
AFP, Published on 12/10/2020
» STOCKHOLM - Work on inequality, economic psychology, auctions, health economics and labour markets are some of the favourites as Monday's economics prize closes an unusual Nobel season nearing the record of women laureates in one year.
Nobel winning women hope to inspire a new generation of scientists
AFP, Published on 07/10/2020
» PARIS - On hearing that they had been awarded a Nobel Chemistry Prize for their groundbreaking work on gene-editing Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier said they hoped it would inspire a new generation of women in science.
US-French duo Charpentier, Doudna win Nobel Chemistry Prize for gene editing tool
AFP, Published on 07/10/2020
» STOCKHOLM: Emmanuelle Charpentier of France and Jennifer Doudna of the United States on Wednesday won the Nobel Chemistry Prize for developing the gene-editing technique known as the CRISPR-Cas9 DNA snipping "scissors".
2020 Nobel season opens with medicine prize
AFP, Published on 05/10/2020
» STOCKHOLM - Breakthroughs in the field of health will be honoured Monday when the 2020 Nobel season kicks off with the medicine prize, as the world battles the worst pandemic in a century.
Body work: Russia's 'biohackers' push boundaries
AFP, Published on 18/02/2020
» MOSCOW - Gripping a scalpel, Vladislav Zaitsev makes an incision in the fold of skin between his client's thumb and index finger and pushes in a small glass cylinder.
A new milestone for using Crispr gene-editing against cancer
AFP, Published on 07/02/2020
» WASHINGTON - US scientists have succeeded in genetically editing the immune systems of three cancer patients using Crispr, without creating any side effects, a first for the tool which is revolutionizing biomedical research.