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What happens when you CRISPR people?

Few questions generated more contentious discussion in biotech in the mid-2010s, as researchers and executives debated the relative merits of preclinical studies that pointed both to the new gene-editing tool’s potential to cure numerous diseases and its potential to cause unintended genetic damage.

Global warming fueled rampant overgrowth of microbes at the end of the Permian period. Such lethal blooms may be on the rise again.

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NLM’s NCBI is introducing the Comparative Genome Viewer (CGV), an easy-to-use visualization tool that helps you quickly compare eukaryotic genome assemblies and easily identify genomic changes that may be significant to biology and evolution. With the new CGV you can view and compare the alignment between two assemblies to see differences in genomic sequence and structure, including deletions, inversions, and translocations. Currently, you can compare assemblies from over 50 annotated animal and plant genomes.

*Click here for the transcript of this video interview: https://aging-us.net/2022/06/22/longevity-aging-series-ep-1-…frank-pun/

Aging (Aging-US) and FOXO Technologies have teamed up to present a special collaboration on aging research with a new monthly video series: the Longevity & Aging Series. This series of video interviews invites Aging researchers to speak with researcher and host Dr. Brian Chen. Dr. Chen is an adjunct faculty member at the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science at the University of California San Diego. He is also the Chief Science Officer of FOXO Technologies.

Continue reading “Longevity & Aging Series (EP 1): Dr. Alex Zhavoronkov and Dr. Frank Pun | Aging-US” »

We’ve learned about a few techniques in biotechnology already, but the CRISPR-Cas9 system is one of the most exciting ones. Inspired by bacterial immune response to viruses, this site-specific gene editing technique won the Nobel prize in chemistry in 2020, going to Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier. How did they develop this method? What can it be used for? Let’s get the full story!

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Regenerage global LLC expanding clinical network to UAE.

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (PRWEB) July 5, 2022.

Regenerage Global LLC, an emerging global leader in clinical, integrative regenerative healthcare and longevity, in collaboration with Aesthetic Polyclinic / Reviv UAE, a medical spa and polyclinic based in Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Al Ain, specializing in plastic surgery, dermatology, dental services and aesthetic services, announce the establishing of Regenerage Clinic Abu Dhabi.

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A successful trial that tested a vaccine against bladder cancer in dogs could help develop a similar one for humans.

In a trio of studies published on June 27 in the journal Nature Microbiology 0, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered “fingerprints” of mysterious viruses hidden in an ancient group of microbes that may include the ancestors of all complex life on Earth: from fungi to plants to humans.

Ths discovery is significant; it explores the hypothesis that viruses were imperative to the evolution of humans and other complex life forms.

These microbes – known as Asgard archaea after the abode of the gods in Norse mythology – are usually found in the frigid sediments deep in the ocean and in boiling springs, and existed on Earth before the first eukaryotic cells, which carry their DNA inside a nucleus.

A man suffering from a rare type of cancer called pseudomyxoma peritonei (PMP) which can surround the organs in the abdomen has survived thanks to a groundbreaking multi-organ transplant procedure. Andy Voge, 33, thought he had six months to live before he met a doctor from the U.K. who…