Antonio Regalado
Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order - {Sydney Brenner}. I write about biotechniques
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Biohacker 101 Class
The ODIN 77d 2 tweets
Making Science and Genetic Engineering Accessible and Affordable
Genetic Engineering with George Church
YouTube 3h 1 tweets
WHO advisers call for registry of studies on human genome editing
sharon begley - STAT 27h 10 tweets
The committee did not, however, explicitly recommend a moratorium on germline editing for reproduction, an issue that has divided genome editing experts.
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Antonio Regalado In bid for transparency, World Health Organization wants a registry of anyone editing sperm, eggs, or embryos---and make scientific journals do the enforcing. 25h
Genetic Entrepreneur Wants to Rewrite the DNA of Dairy Cows
Antonio Regalado - MIT Technology Review 32h 1 tweets
Can genome-editing technology revive the idea of genetically modified livestock?
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Antonio Regalado fwiw, here at TR we were first to describe the Talens hornless cattle project in 2014. 32h
China’s race to test ‘mutation-free’ gene-editing tech on patients
South China Morning Post 9d 2 tweets
Shanghai-based research group is keen to test its high-precision therapy that reduces risk of unintended mutations.
NIHCM - Finalists for the 25th Annual Health Care Research and Journalism Awards
Nihcm.org 5d 2 tweets
The National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) Foundation is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to improving the health of all Americans by spurring workable and creative solutions to pressing healthcare problems.
Enabling large-scale genome editing by reducing DNA nicking
bioRxiv 5d 2 tweets
To extend the frontier of genome editing and enable the radical redesign of mammalian genomes, we developed a set of dead-Cas9 base editor (dBEs) variants that allow editing at tens of thousands of loci per cell by overcoming the cell death...
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Antonio Regalado Wow! Badass. 13,200 crispr base edits in a single cell! On the way to “recoded” human cells. From Oscar Castanon and of Church lab. 5d
An Abandoned Baby’s DNA Condemns His Mother
Sarah Zhang - The Atlantic 7d 3 tweets
Sioux Falls police bring murder charges, based on a technique first used to catch a serial killer, in a 38-year-old case.
Antonio Regalado Complicated case of neonaticide and genetic genealogy 6d
Leading scientists call for global moratorium on creating ‘CRISPR babies’
sharon begley - STAT 7d 8 tweets
The call divided scientists over whether a moratorium would stop rogue research without stifling what could one day be a safe and beneficial technology.
23andMe Offers New Genetic Report on Type 2 Diabetes
23andMe Blog 10d 4 tweets
23andMe has a new type 2 diabetes report offering customers insight into their likelihood of developing one of the most prevalent and yet preventable health conditions in the United States.
Code of the Wild
Code of the Wild 16d 4 tweets
the nature of us, edited
23andMe thinks polygenic risk scores are ready for the masses, but experts aren’t so sure
Antonio Regalado - MIT Technology Review 10d 10 tweets
A new genetic test that estimates your risk for diabetes is probably less useful than standing on a scale.
China to tighten rules on gene editing in humans
Nature.com 14d 2 tweets
In the wake of the gene-edited-baby scandal, scientists and institutions could face tough penalties for breaking the rules.
Hello Tomorrow - Summit
Hello-tomorrow.org 604d 7 tweets
The annual invite-only gathering of the deep-tech community worldwide. October 26-27, Paris.
Human Nature
SXSW 2019 Schedule 14d 1 tweets
SXSW 2019 Schedule | The biggest tech revolution of the 21st century isn’t digital, it’s biological. A breakthrough called CRISPR gives us unprecedented control over the basic building blocks of life. It opens the door to curing disease, reshaping...
Antonio Regalado (4/4) Here is the SXSW listing Here is a discussion with the director: /END 14d
Adam Bolt Discusses His Documentary Feature Human Nature - SXSW Filmmaker In Focus
SXSW 14d 1 tweets
Adam Bolt's Human Nature is a feature documentary about CRISPR, which gives us the power to change what it means to be human.
Antonio Regalado (4/4) Here is the SXSW listing Here is a discussion with the director: /END 14d
Human Nature Documentary Film
Wonder Collaborative 14d 3 tweets
The biggest tech revolution of the 21st century isn’t digital, it’s biological. A breakthrough called CRISPR gives us unprecedented control over the basic building blocks of life. It opens the door to curing disease, reshaping the biosphere, and...
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Antonio Regalado There are several CRISPR documentaries in production. The first to hit the screen is "Human Nature" by Adam Bolt and produced by . It's going to premier this Sunday, Mar. 10th . The trailer is just out. Watch: (1/4) 14d
Gene editing upstart backed by Broad star Feng Zhang nabs $135M, blueprinting a platform biotech for the long haul
John Carroll - Endpts.com 14d 4 tweets
Image: John Evans. BEAM Last May, when Beam Therapeutics had its coming out party, complete with $87 million in investment backing, a solid core of 15 staffers and a dream team of scientific co-founders, CEO John Evans was sure they were set for...
Jennifer Doudna Is Pioneering the Science — and Ethics — of Gene Editing
Rolling Stone 17d 4 tweets
The Berkeley biochemist helped discover a world-changing biotechnology
HIV remission achieved through stem cell transplantation
The Hindu 16d 1 tweets
At present, this is possible only if people living with HIV also have some form of cancer
Antonio Regalado The Hindu reporting on a second "Berlin patient"-- i.e. a 2nd person cured of HIV infection via bone marrow transplant from a donor immune to HIV because lack working copies of CCR5 gene. Removing CCR5 gene: also the goal of CRISPR baby experiment. 16d