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Progress on Self-Cloning Crops
A Q&A with Mary Gehring, plant biologist at MIT’s Whitehead Institute, about synthetic apomixis.
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Codon Digest: Agents Design Proteins
Plus: Epigenome editing cuts cholesterol in monkeys.
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Everything is Cabbage. Now It's Gene-Edited.
Plus: The F.D.A. makes an unexpected decision.
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Monkey Embryos Grow to 25 Days — No Womb Required
Watch now (38 sec) | Research Roundup // Plus: Yeast evolve in the lab.
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Codon News: Cloned Mongolian Horses
Plus: More problems for lab-grown meat.
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Brazil’s Mosquito Factory is Supposed to Curb Dengue. There's A Better Way.
If you want to kill mosquitoes, sometimes you gotta make more of ‘em.
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April 2023
Codon Digest: Vaccine Printer Go Brrrrr!
Plus: Genome editing gets a boost & memes, memes, memes.
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Codon Digest: Ghana Approves A Better Malaria Vaccine
Plus: A better way to edit genes in the brain and gene-edited bananas bypass GMO regulations.
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Gene-Edited Bananas
Making fruits that don’t spoil.
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Codon Digest: GPT-4 Controls a Robot
Plus: Skin microbes target cancer.
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Codon Digest: CAR-T Therapy for Neuroblastoma
Read to the end for a song.
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The Fall and Rise of Science Writing
Why scientists will be the greatest writers.
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