Month: July 2015

On April 18, scientists at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangdong, China, published an article in the obscure open-access journal Protein & Celldocumenting their attempt at using an experimental new method of gene therapy on human embryos. Although the scientific significance of the results remains open...

Applying a dramatically improved method for “editing” genes to human stem cells, University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of neuroscience Su-Chun Zhang has shown a new way to silence genes in stem cells and their progeny at any stage of development. The advance has advantages in speed...