15 – 21 August 2016 Radically rewritten’ bacterial genome unveiled The altered Escherichia coli represent the most extensive reengineering yet of an organism’s genetic code.The feat, described today in Science, involved repurposing 3.8% of the base pairs of the bacterium Escherichia coli. Find source Controversial insecticides linked to wild bee declines A dip in …
08 – 14 August 2016 Obama Administration Set to Remove Barrier to Marijuana Research The Obama administration is planning to remove a major roadblock to marijuana research. The new policy is expected to sharply increase the supply of marijuana available to researchers. Find source Controversy over NgAgo gene-editing intensifies Three months ago, Han Chunyu, …
01 – 07 August 2016 NIH Reveals Plan to Fund Human-Animal Chimeras The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has outlined a proposal to lift a ban on funding human-animal chimera research—with conditions. Find source Seven facts on the GSK-Google bioelectronic medicines deal Bioelectronic medicine is embryonic. But British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline and US …
25 – 31 July 2016 Congo virus detected in Pakistan Advisor to Chief Minister on Health Khwaja Salman Rafiq has constituted a special team to submit a report on prevalence of Congo Fever after two cases were reported from Bahawalpur. Find source Americans worried about using gene editing, brain chip implants and synthetic …
18 – 24 July 2016 Chinese scientists to pioneer first human CRISPR trial Chinese scientists are on the verge of being first in the world to inject people with cells modified using the CRISPR–Cas9 gene-editing technique. Find source Turkey purges universities after failed coup More than a thousand Turkish university staff have been …
11 – 17 July 2016 Global initiative seeks 1,000 new cancer models An international collaboration of cancer-research heavy-weights aims to grow 1,000 new cell lines for scientists to study. The Human Cancer Models Initiative announced its pilot project on 11 July, and intends to complete the initial 1,000 models within 3 years. Find source …
04 – 10 July 2016 Remember Dolly? The sheep wasn't the only animal clone Cloning is and has always been a highly controversial procedure that raises a slew of ethical issues, including animal welfare. The European Parliament voted to ban the cloning of all farm animals and the sale of cloned livestock. Find source …
27 June – 03 July 2016 What does Brexit mean for the research community? Great Britain and the EU are closely tied together in the field of research – in the exchange of scientists, in financing and in setting common standards. What now? Find source FDA approves first pill to treat all forms of hepatitis …
20 – 26 June 2016 First CRISPR clinical trial gets green light from US panel CRISPR, the genome-editing technology that has taken biomedical science by storm, is finally nearing human trials. On 21 June, an advisory committee at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) approved a proposal to use CRISPR–Cas9 to help augment …
13 – 19 June 2016 UN aims for 2030 end to AIDS pandemic Ending the AIDS pandemic by 2030 has been set as the goal by UN member nations. UN seeks by 2020 to reduce new HIV infections to below 500,000 cases a year – down from 2.1 million in 2015 – down from …
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