Showing posts with label genomics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label genomics. Show all posts
Thursday, September 11, 2025

How to make a racehorse fast? (a new punchline...)

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  The old punchline is "don't feed him."  The new punchline is "CRISPR." Here's a news story from Nature: First ...
Saturday, April 12, 2025

Pig kidney transplant fails after four months--longest so far.

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 A news item in Science reports on the failure of a xenotransplant after four months.  Four months is not nothing.  So kidneys from transgen...
Sunday, October 6, 2024

Technology and crime: cloning giant sheep

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  There are things you can go to prison for that wouldn't have been possible to do not long ago. The Washington Post is on the case: Ran...
Tuesday, September 12, 2023

New technologies and new controversies: using CRISPR to edit human genes

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 New technologies are often accompanied by new repugnancies, i.e. by controversies about their moral appropriateness. The future of using CR...
Friday, February 10, 2023

Human evolution in the last 12,000 years, in PNAS

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My loose impression is that, not so long ago, scholars of human evolution discounted recent changes in the human genome, pointing out that m...
Saturday, October 29, 2022

The end of anonymous sperm donation...

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 In  Colorado, a new law ending anonymous sperm donation seeks to catch up with the technological developments involving genetic sequencing ...
Friday, December 10, 2021

The first children with germline-edited genomes are growing up: the CRISPR story so far

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  Nature has the story: The CRISPR children .  In China, the first children with germline-edited genomes are growing up.  by Vivien Marx ...
Wednesday, November 11, 2020

Crispr gene editing is apparently not yet so well understood

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 The NY Times has the story: Crispr Gene Editing Can Cause Unwanted Changes in Human Embryos, Study Finds--Instead of addressing genetic mut...
Monday, December 30, 2019

Some kinds of privacy may be gone forever

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Lots of family secrets are revealed by DNA analysis, and it may no longer be possible to keep those secrets.  That is part of the argument ...
Friday, December 6, 2019

Testing your own DNA is illegal in France

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Statnews.com has the story: In France, it’s illegal for consumers to order a DNA spit kit. Activists are fighting over lifting the ban   ...
Thursday, April 4, 2019

A new repugnant use of DNA information--'clarifying' Who is a Jew

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The Jerusalem Post has the story: CHIEF RABBINATE ADMITS USING DNA TESTS TO HELP DETERMINE JEWISH STATUS Orthodox organizations denounce ...
Friday, January 13, 2017

Genetic testing for heritable diseases

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JScreen is a genetic testing service associated with Emory University that allows individuals and couples to learn what heritable diseases...
Sunday, January 1, 2017

Matchmaker Exchange: Matching genes and symptoms for patients with very rare diseases ("lonesome exomes")

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There's a lot of genetic matchmaking going on in the world. In kidney transplantation we worry about HLA matching, which is even more ...
Friday, December 16, 2016

Genos seeks to make a market for personal genetic (whole exome) information

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Genos is a new company that seeks to make a market for personal genetic information--it wants to both sell sequencing services to individu...
Monday, December 14, 2015

Technology watch: does Crispr create a new class of repugnant transactions?

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The NY Times has the story: Scientists Seek Moratorium on Edits to Human Genome That Could Be Inherited "An international group of ...
Thursday, August 20, 2015

A privacy-preserving market design intervention to avoid Tay Sachs disease

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Scott Kominers draws my attention to a 1987 news note in JAMA, with a privacy-sensitive market design for keeping people's sensitive g...