Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Genome editing 2 is a powerful new tool for making precise additions, deletions, and ...

Welcome to the SciFri Book Club about Upgrade by Blake Crouch. There’s lots of ways to participate: Read the book, listen to our interview with the author, join our online community space, or send a ...

Researchers have successfully develop single-atom editing technology that maximizes drug efficacy. In pioneering drug development, the new technology that enables the easy and rapid editing of key ...

The development of gene editing tools, which enable the specific targeting and correction of mutations, hold the promise of allowing us to correct those mutations that cause genetic diseases. However, ...

The CRISPR gene-editing system is a powerful tool that could revolutionize medicine and other sciences, but unfortunately it has a tendency to make edits to the wrong sections of DNA. Now, researchers ...

Like the human immune system, bacteria learn from past infections. CRISPR sequences—short snippets of DNA from previous viruses—guide destructive enzymes towards invading bacteriophages that express ...

The research team, led by scientists including Ryo Hashizume, worked with skin cells and induced pluripotent stem cells derived from people with Down syndrome. Rather than altering individual genes, ...

Suggested Citation: "7 Public Engagement." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. Human Genome Editing: Science, Ethics, and Governance ...