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Synthetic human embryos obtained from stem cells? Artificial monkey embryo research leads the way

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Synthetic human embryos obtained from stem cells? Artificial monkey embryo research leads the way

IIn January 2017, I met Jiankui He, the now-infamous Chinese scientist who would go on to create the world’s first genome-edited babies. This occurred during a meeting in Berkeley, California hosted by Jennifer Doudna who, along with Emmanuelle Charpentier, was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work on CRISPR genome-editing technology. In … Read more

Flying skydivers leads geneticist Clemson to develop a system to detect DNA in the sky

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A woman wearing a red hat and sunglasses standing in front of an airplane

July 5, 2023July 5, 2023 As she flew through a Saharan dust plume above Anderson while piloting skydivers to their jump altitude, Clemson University geneticist and licensed commercial pilot Kimberly Mtris saw a research opportunity literally before her eyes. The atmosphere was saturated with particulate matter as transcontinental clouds of dust and sand swirled … Read more