Embyro Selection from DNA Testing of 900+ Genes – IQ, Longevity and More

People who use IVF (in vitro fertilization) will soon be able to rank embryos using genetic and other information in the hopes of extending the longevity of their offspring, according to the 25-year-old entrepreneur behind Nucleus Genomics, a DNA testing and analysis company. Nucleus plans to charge $5,999 for an analysis of up to 900 …

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Woolly Mice Made on the Way to a Woolly Mammoth by 2028

Colossus Bioscience creation of the woolly mice Tuesday in a news release and posted a scientific paper online detailing the achievement. Scientists implanted genetically modified embryos in female lab mice that gave birth to the first of the woolly pups in October. Reviving extinct species like the mammoth, the dodo and others could help repair …

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Living Carbon Makes Faster Growing Trees to Absorb Extra CO2

Living Carbon is a startup funded with $36 million that just planted a forest of genetically modified trees to absorb more carbon. Living Carbon is a San Francisco-based biotechnology company that produced genetically modified poplars. The new trees are intended to be a large-scale solution to climate change. The company’s researchers used a crude technique …

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Theoretically Possibility That Gene Edited Twins Received a Tiny Intelligence Enhancement

The question and answer interview of He Jianku conference presentation has the most interesting parts of this debate about human gene editing of embryos. The interview starts at about 1 hour and 28 minutes of the record. The formal presentation showed that the scientist He has taken appropriate scientific care to perform the work. He …

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Woolly Mammoths would prevent the permafrost from melting and help save the planet

The goal of woolly mammoth project is to solve the permafrost climate issue. The top area of the world is covered in permafrost. The Siberian and Canadian tundra is this mass of permafrost and that permafrost is a ticking time bomb it contains within it more carbon, carbon dioxide and methane than if we burned …

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Using Woolly Mammoths to help solve Climate Change

Returning woolly mammoth to the Tundra would help solve Climate Change. They lived during the Pleistocene until extinction in the early Holocene epoch, and was one of the last in a line of mammoth species. The natural environment in the tundra was about 19 million square kilometers throughout Siberia Russia, Canada and Alaska. This huge …

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A fully annotated wheat genome good be used to massively boost wheat crop yields

Wheat is one of the major sources of food for much of the world. However, because bread wheat’s genome is a large hybrid mix of three separate subgenomes, it has been difficult to produce a high-quality reference sequence. Using recent advances in sequencing, the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium presents an annotated reference genome with …

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Hundreds of modifications to engineered cells against cancer and other diseases to make it more effective and lower costs

CAR-T cell therapy refers to a treatment that uses transformed cells for cancer therapy. T-cells can be removed from a person, genetically altered and put them back into the patient for them to attack the cancer cells. Killer T-Cells have been used and modified to identify cancer cells which enables the T-Cells to kill cancer …

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Global warming resistant corals will be tested in the ocean by 2019

New super global warming resistant corals could be tested on the Great Barrier Reef within a year as part of a global research effort to accelerate evolution and save the “rainforests of the seas” from extinction. Researchers are getting promising early results from cross-breeding different species of reef-building corals, rapidly developing new strains of the …

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