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Will Latest CRISPR Uses be Game Changers in the GM Debate?
By Tabitha M. Powledge Two papers published in the last week were signal events for agricultural genomics. First was the draft of the huge, and hugely complex, genome of bread wheat, the staff of life...
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Synthetic Biology Gone Wild? Probably Not. An interview with Tom Ellis.
By Prashant Bhat The first annual Synthetic Biology: Engineering, Evolution & Design (SEED) conference was held last month in Manhattan Beach, CA. Both new and veteran star-studded synthetic...
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Regulating Uncertainty: The European Food Safety Authority and GMOs
By Charles Ebikeme In September of 2012, a paper published in Food and Chemical Toxicology, garnered widespread media attention. The paper documented how rats fed a particular line of...
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Progress and patents, a CRISPR news roundup
After briefly fading from the media spotlight, CRISPR, the genome-engineering tool that caused widespread consternation at the end of 2015, when a Chinese group first reported applying the technique in...
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The controversy over a “secret” meeting on synthetic human genomes?
0000-0003-0319-5416Reports of a “secret” meeting on synthetic human genomes have caused quite the uproar online. Some of the headlines and comments conjured up sci-fi plots of new artificial humans....
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“Building with Biology” Synbio Outreach
0000-0003-0319-5416Recently I got to volunteer again at a “Building with Biology” event at the Museum of Science in Boston. Last year was the first event of its kind and now the program is spreading...
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Food Evolution documentary looks at science, money, and fake news around GMOs
0000-0003-0319-5416Food Evolution aims to take a look at the science underlying the heated rhetoric of the GMO debate. Filmmaker Scott Hamilton Kennedy, narrator Neil deGrasse Tyson and on-camera...
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Book review: ‘A Crack in Creation.’ Jennifer Doudna’s journey of discovery
0000-0003-0319-5416Famed CRISPR researcher Jennifer Doudna, along with a past student Samuel Sternberg (starting his own lab in at Columbia University), wrote an account of her CRISPR discoveries and...
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