Scientists Crispr the First Human Embryos in the US (Maybe)
WIRED The research was conducted by Shoukhrat Mitalipov, the same guy who first cloned embryonic stem cells in humans. And…
Helix’s Bold Plan to Be Your One Stop Personal Genomics Shop
WIRED $80 and a spit sample gets you a spot on one of Helix’s sequencing machines and a chunk of…
At ClinicalTrials.Gov, Untested Stem Cell Clinics Advertise for Free!
WIRED Researchers believe the ballooning stem cell clinic industry is taking advantage of the federal repository’s honor system. And patients…
Teen Pregnancy Researchers Regroup After Trump's HHS Pulls Funding
WIRED Last week, HHS abruptly canceled two years and $213 million worth of grants meant to aid teen pregnancy prevention,…
Verily's Mosquito Factory Accelerates the Fight Against Zika
WIRED The next release of sterile mosquitoes from MosquitoMate gets an assist from robotic sorters from the Google spin-off. Source:…
Scientists Upload a Galloping Horse GIF Into Bacteria With Crispr
WIRED DNA could be a robust storage system for data, but never before have researchers stored information in a live…
The Problem With Fitness Studies Based on Activity Apps
WIRED Using smartphones to study public health requires reliable data—and researchers, even at well-connected universities like Stanford, still have a…
Biology's Roiling Debate Over Publishing Research Early
WIRED Posting scientific papers online, free to the public, seems like a great idea. But it’s more complicated than it…
Designing Genderless Emoji? It Takes More Than Just Losing the Lipstick
WIRED It took a year and a half for Paul Hunt to cook up Unicode’s first gender-inclusive emoji—but now your…