Daily News Roundup
The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics calls on scientists and health care providers to engage in public discussion about the ethical issues involved in genome editing.
A sequencing blitz on the tomato genome reveals the genes that contribute most to tastiness.
Foamy-like endogenous retroviruses may have emerged more than 450 million years ago, according to an analysis.
The latest CRISPR deactivators to be discovered turn off the Streptococcus pyogenes Cas9 widely used in genome editing.
Scientists are getting to closer to developing a technique that can suppress mosquito populations on a continental scale, based on preliminary modeling results.
Even with the original authors’ vector, the NgAgo technique doesn’t work in others’ hands.
Researchers use genotypes of a virus commonly found in semen to trace men’s geographic origins.
Yeast study finds many instances—often among related genes—in which a mutation in one gene cancels the negative effects of a mutation in another.
Family members with a certain gene variant had unnecessary interventions, highlighting the potential hazards of precision medicine.
Susan Lindquist of MIT and the Whitehead Institute broke scientific ground on prions and heat shock proteins.
The prominent researcher has been put on administrative leave pending an investigation into unspecified allegations.
The 20-year project calls into question the conventional wisdom about the role plants will play in mitigating future climate change.
The US Senate narrowly approved the politician, who does not have a science background.
Researchers deliver small interfering RNAs loaded into nanoparticles into the ears of adult guinea pigs to regenerate hair cells damaged by noise.
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