A novel gene editing procedure based on a nuclease from the Argonaute protein family was described in mid-2016 and appeared to provide significant advantages over the now widely used CRISPR-Cas9 system. Attempts by numerous ...

Viable human embryos carrying a disease mutation have now been corrected by CRISPR-Cas9 editing. Although the correction is not perfect, and the embryos have not been implanted, this brings us closer to human germline ...

Careful sequencing studies on small samples of normal oesophageal epithelium reveal the presence of very abundant cellular clones harbouring mutations in known cancer genes (and elsewhere). The number and size of these ...

Senescent cells are involved in many age-related diseases, and the effects of their elimination by “senolytic” drugs is an active research field. A recent paper describes a convenient murine model of induced senescence and ...

The very high information density of DNA has prompted speculations on its use for information storage. The high costs of DNA synthesis and sequencing made this highly unpractical; however recent progress (notably array ...

The HGP-write project, announced in 2016 but not really implemented yet, comes back as a project aimed at constructing an “ultra-safe” human cell line fully resistant to virus infection and with other desirable characteristics. ...