Category Archives: Genetic Engineering

Convergent Evolution - Genetic Engineering [Evolutio] http://www.beatport.com/release/evolutio/1406055 https://www.facebook.com/pages/Convergent-Evolution/327176334122235. By: The Psychedelic Muse … Continue reading →

Seoul, South Korea (PRWEB) December 05, 2014 Imagine yourself as a mad scientist on a quest to breed the perfect beast. Thats exactly the premise behind Remimorys latest release D.N.Age. Set inside a fantasy world, players take on the role of a lost adventurer who finds himself transported to an alternate dimension. In order to get back home, he must search for magical items in forests, deserts, and dungeons with the help of a team of monsters. D.N.Age strikes a perfect balance between a dungeon-crawler RPG and monster raising simulator with a very unique twist. The upgrade system is unlike anything seen before, based around genetics and DNA manipulation. Players can collect monsters on dungeon raids, then analyze their DNA for specific traits and breed them with other monsters to improve their traits and make them stronger. The game brings a whole range of customization options including the ability to dress and style your virtual assistant a rather attractive elf who guides you on your quest; a medicine crafting clinic; and a lab to grow special herbs. Remimory has gone with a premium model, pricing the game at $4.99 USD, to avoid pushy free-to-play monetization strategies. The game can is … Continue reading →

Discussion Starters Human Genetic Engineering Discussion Starters Human Genetic Engineering. By: Alen Zilic … Continue reading →

CSHL Keynote Series, Dr. Christopher Voight, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Pushing the scale of genetic engineering" from the Synthetic Biology meeting in Suzhou China, CSHL-Asia 12/2/2014. By: CSHL Leading Strand … Continue reading →

Duke University has signed an exclusive licensing agreement with Editas Medicine, a leading genome editing company, for genetic engineering technologies developed in the lab of Charles Gersbach, assistant professor of biomedical engineering. The agreement focuses on Gersbachs work with genome engineering technologies known as CRISPR/Cas9 and TALENs. Charles Gersbach The agreement allows broad use of the technology developed in Gersbachs lab for the prevention or treatment of human disease. To this point, Gersbachs most notable work in that field is on Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a genetic disease affecting one in 3,500 newborn males that currently has no approved treatment and causes muscular deterioration, paralysis and eventual death, usually by age 25. Gersbachs work is focused on using gene editing to correct the mutated gene that causes the disease, in contrast to treating the resulting symptoms of the disease. Gersbach has also pioneered the use of both CRISPR/Cas9 and TALEs for turning on genes in a way that could be used to treat degenerative disorders or compensate for genetic defects. Charlies deep expertise in both genome editing and in this area of biology is a tremendous asset as we begin to understand how to apply genome editing technologies to specific diseases, … Continue reading →

Cyrus Co. Genetic Engineering Episode 1(E.G.C.) This facility was funded by Coronia Corp. No hate mail. By: E.G.C. Cyrus and Friends … Continue reading →

By Isaac Fletcher, contributing writer, Food Online J.R. Simplots Innate potato may provide potential health benefits through genetic engineering, but uncertainty over long-term risks and degree of benefits raise some concerns The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has recently approved for commercial planting a potato that has been genetically engineered to reduce the amounts of a potentially harmful ingredient that appear in French fries and potato chips. When potatoes are fried, a chemical called acrylamide, which is suspected of causing cancer, is produced. The genetic engineering involves altering the potatos DNA so that when the potato is fried, the amount of acrylamide that appears is reduced. Additionally, the genetically-engineered potato is resistant to bruising. This will help potato growers and processors lower the instances of damage during shipping and storage, leading to fewer occurrences of lost value and unusable product. The potatoes have been developed by the J.R. Simplot Company of Boise, Idaho, a major supplier of McDonalds frozen French fries. Rather than solely providing benefit to farmers and producers, the potato is among a new wave of genetically-engineered crops designed to provide benefits to consumers. However, with many consumers calling into question the safety of genetically-modified foods, the new … Continue reading →

Yes. We understand the potential benefits of the technology, and support continued advances in molecular biology, the underlying science. But we are critics of the business models and regulatory systems that have characterized early deployment of these technologies. GE has proved valuable in some areas (as in the contained use of engineered bacteria in pharmaceutical development), and some GE applications could turn out to play a useful role in food production. Thus far, however, GE applications in agriculture have only made the problems of industrial monocropping worse. Rather than supporting a more sustainable agriculture and food system with broad societal benefits, the technology has been employed in ways that reinforce problematic industrial approaches to agriculture. Policy decisions about the use of GE have too often been driven by biotech industry public relations campaigns, rather than by what science tells us about the most cost-effective ways to produce abundant food and preserve the health of our farmland. These are a few things policy makers should do to best serve the public interest: Excerpt from: Genetic Engineering in Agriculture | Union of Concerned ... … Continue reading →

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Genetic engineering takes cells and alters their genes so they perform functions different from what nature originally intended. A new trend uses circuitry to re-engineer the cell. These biological circuits "wire" naturally occurring cells into a circuit that performs a new function, such as filling in for the dopamine-generating cells destroyed by Parkinson's disease. "Our ultimate goal, many years from now, is complex medical applications, such as injection of a circuit into the bloodstream that looks for cancer cells and, when it finds one, injects a drug," Domitilla Del Vecchio, a professor at MIT, told EE Times. "Such a circuit would need a sensor, a computer, and an actuation component to inject the drug, and those are the kinds of components we are working on today." Yeast cells (middle) are wired together like electronic components, but they communicate, not with electrical wires, but with chemicals that only plug into cells with the proper receptor. (Image: MIT) Other possible applications include synthetic biological circuits that measure glucose levels constantly for diabetic patients and then automatically release insulin when it is needed. The design process for such biocircuitry is slow and arduous compared with designing electronic circuits. For one … Continue reading →

PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 27-Nov-2014 Contact: Rebecca Winkels rebecca.winkels@helmholtz-hzi.de 49-531-618-11403 Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research @Helmholtz_HZI This news release is available in German. Genome engineering with the RNA-guided CRISPR-Cas9 system in animals and plants is changing biology. It is easier to use and more efficient than other genetic engineering tools, thus it is already being applied in laboratories all over the world just a few years after its discovery. This rapid adoption and the history of the system are the core topics of a review published in the renowned journal Science. The review was written by the discoverers of the system Prof. Emmanuelle Charpentier, who works at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) and is also affiliated to the Hannover Medical School and Ume University, and Prof. Jennifer Doudna from the University of California, Berkeley, USA. Many diseases result from a change of an individual's DNA - the letter code that genes consist of. The defined order of the letters within a gene usually codes for a protein. Proteins are the workforce of our body and responsible for almost all processes needed to keep us running. When a gene is altered, its protein product may lose its normal function and … Continue reading →