Scientists discover another superpower of tardigrades – what does this mean for us?
Category: Genetics
CRISPR-Cas9, standing for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, is a new and exciting gene editing method.
Biotechnology has the potential to revolutionise our lives, but how are scientists setting about making this happen?
Have you analysed your DNA? Although this might have been a weird question to ask a few years ago, in 2019 it would be unusual if you didn’t know at least one person who has bought a direct-to-consumer genetic testing kit.
What explains a patient’s genetic disease when no genetic cause is known?
The MAOA allele, amid significant controversy, has become a key to deciphering what it truly means to be human.
Germline gene therapy: should we open the box on a brave new world of designer babies?
Written by: Munaye Lichtenstein.
Art by: Cheng-Yu Huang.