Trump’s Billion-Dollar Tech Deals, and a Military Buildup at the Border - Plus, your Friday news quiz. - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/podcasts/the-headlines/trump-tech-deals-immigration-crackdown.html #newarklibertyinternationalairport(nj) #a.i.artificialintelligence(movie) #artificialintelligence #rareandorphandiseases #geneticsandheredity #geneticengineering #nationalguard #trumpdonaldj
Patient Dies Weeks After Kidney Transplant From Genetically Modified Pig - Richard Slayman received the historic procedure in March. The hospital said it had “no in... - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/12/health/richard-slayman-death-pig-kidney-transplant.html #massachusettsgeneralhospital #your-feed-healthcare #geneticsandheredity #geneticengineering #deaths(fatalities) #transplants #hospitals #egenesis #kidneys #pigs
The Gamble: Can Genetically Modified Mosquitoes End Disease? - Working on a remote island, scientists think they can use genetic engineering to block a ... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/29/health/mosquitoes-genetic-engineering.html #universityofcaliforniamalariainitiative #scienceandtechnology #geneticsandheredity #geneticengineering #saotomeandprincipe #medicineandhealth #invasivespecies #mosquitoes #malaria #insects #africa
Crazy ants are even crazier than I knew! Males are chimeras resulting from fertilized eggs!
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adf0419
I truly don't know anything about anything now...
Your DNA Can Now Be Pulled From Thin Air. Privacy Experts Are Worried. - Environmental DNA research has aided conservation, but scientists say its ability to glea... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/15/science/environmental-dna-ethics-privacy.html #falsearrestsconvictionsandimprisonments #surveillanceofcitizensbygovernment #natureecology&evolution(journal) #dna(deoxyribonucleicacid) #conservationofresources #civilrightsandliberties #geneticsandheredity #your-feed-science #forensicscience
They Created a Drug for Susannah. What About Millions of Other Patients? - Scientists have made rapid progress in customizing drugs for ultrarare diseases. The hard... - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/health/rare-disease-genetic-treatments.html #drugs(pharmaceuticals) #nonprofitorganizations #rareandorphandiseases #your-feed-healthcare #geneticsandheredity #medicineandhealth #battensdisease #vis-photo #kand
Can Start-Ups Significantly Lower the Cost of Gene Sequencing? - Companies like Ultima Genomics say they have the technology, which could lead to medical ... - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/12/business/gene-sequencing-ultima-cheaper.html #americancollegeofmedicalgenetics #biologyandbiochemistry #geneticsandheredity #humangenomeproject #upstart2022 #start-ups
Philanthropists Push Police Searches of DNA Databases - When the police can’t afford to solve cold cases, deep-pocketed donors can. - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/27/technology/dna-tests-crime-solving.html #geneticsandheredity #forensicscience #genealogy
Life’s Preference for Symmetry Is Like ‘A New Law of Nature’ - Techniques from computer science may help explain the tendency in biology for structures ... - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/24/science/symmetry-biology-evolution.html #proceedingsofthenationalacademyofsciences #biologyandbiochemistry #rna(ribonucleicacid) #geneticsandheredity #evolution(biology) #your-feed-science #your-feed-animals #proteins #research
A Gene Sequencing Pioneer Battles Over What It Can Buy - Is Illumina, a gene-sequencing powerhouse, trying to speed innovation in the field of can... - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/10/business/illumina-gene-sequencing-ftc.html #regulationandderegulationofindustry #mergersacquisitionsanddivestitures #antitrustlawsandcompetitionissues #federaltradecommission #geneticsandheredity #europeancommission #tests(medical) #desouzafrances #illuminainc #grailinc #cancer #blood
Why Didn’t the U.S. Detect Omicron Cases Sooner? - Genomic surveillance has improved enormously in recent months, but the system has built-i... - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/02/health/omicron-variant-genetic-surveillance.html #centersfordiseasecontrolandprevention #vaccinationandimmunization #coronavirusomicronvariant #coronavirus(2019-ncov) #geneticsandheredity #your-feed-science #your-feed-health #tests(medical) #southafrica
Why Hasn’t the U.S. Found More Omicron Cases? - Genomic surveillance has improved enormously in recent months, but the system has built-i... - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/02/health/coronavirus-omicron-genetic-surveillance.html #centersfordiseasecontrolandprevention #vaccinationandimmunization #coronavirusomicronvariant #coronavirus(2019-ncov) #geneticsandheredity #your-feed-science #your-feed-health #tests(medical) #southafrica
The Gene-Synthesis Revolution - Researchers can now design and mass-produce genetic material — a technique that helped bu... - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/24/magazine/gene-synthesis.html #biotechnologyandbioengineering #dna(deoxyribonucleicacid) #biologyandbiochemistry #geneticsandheredity #2021techanddesign #ginkgobioworksinc #syntheticbiology #crispr(dna) #antibiotics #chemistry #bacteria
How Biology is Getting a Technological Makeover - The story of Ginkgo Bioworks shows the challenges and progress in the emerging field of s... - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/16/technology/synthetic-biology.html #laboratoriesandscientificequipment #computersandtheinternet #biologyandbiochemistry #geneticsandheredity #geneticengineering #syntheticbiology #venturecapital #ginkgobioworks #start-ups
Biology Starts to Get a Technological Makeover - The story of Ginkgo Bioworks shows the challenges and progress in the emerging field of s... - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/16/technology/synthetic-biology-ginkgo-bioworks.html #laboratoriesandscientificequipment #computersandtheinternet #biologyandbiochemistry #geneticsandheredity #geneticengineering #syntheticbiology #venturecapital #ginkgobioworks #start-ups
A New Company With a Wild Mission: Bring Back the Woolly Mammoth - With $15 million in private funding, Colossal aims to bring thousands of woolly mammoths ... - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/13/science/colossal-woolly-mammoth-DNA.html #endangeredandextinctspecies #geneticsandheredity #geneticengineering #mammoths(animals) #your-feed-science #churchgeorgem #paleontology #elephants #cloning
A.I. Predicts the Shapes of Molecules to Come - DeepMind has given 3-D structure to 350,000 proteins, including every one made by humans,... - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/22/technology/deepmind-ai-proteins-folding.html #computersandtheinternet #artificialintelligence #biologyandbiochemistry #geneticsandheredity #humangenomeproject #your-feed-science #your-feed-health #proteins
W.H.O. Experts Seek Limits on Human Gene-Editing Experiments - The panel also called on countries to ensure that beneficial forms of genetic alteration ... - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/12/science/gene-editing-crispr-who.html #ethicsandofficialmisconduct #dna(deoxyribonucleicacid) #worldhealthorganization #your-feed-healthcare #geneticsandheredity #geneticengineering #your-feed-science #your-feed-health #clinicaltrials #crispr(dna) #hejiankui #research
Training the Next Generation of Indigenous Data Scientists - A new workshop explores the right of Indigenous people to govern the collection, ownershi... - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/science/indigenous-data-microbiome-science.html #data-mininganddatabasemarketing #drugs(pharmaceuticals) #languageandlanguages #geneticsandheredity #your-feed-science #your-feed-health #indigenouspeople #nativeamericans #cherokeeindians #navajoindians #microbiology #23andme
Two New Laws Restrict Police Use of DNA Search Method - Maryland and Montana have passed the nation’s first laws limiting forensic genealogy, the... - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/31/science/dna-police-laws.html #dna(deoxyribonucleicacid) #geneticsandheredity #lawandlegislation #your-feed-science #forensicscience #genealogy #maryland #privacy #montana
