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Actors Sean Penn and Octavia Spencer presenting awards to Stuart H. Orkin (Harvard University) and Swee Lay Thein (National Institutes of Health)

They’re called the “Oscars of Science” for their Hollywood-style glamour, but more and more they resemble a grand gala of advanced therapies. A few examples?


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Credit: Brett Shipe / J. Craig Venter Institute

Craig Venter was the first person to read his own genome (his full sequence was published in 2007). He was able to study his genetic predispositions and undergo the most advanced tests to ver...


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Amid research funding cuts under the Trump administration, a slowdown in venture capital investment, and uncertainty driven by shifting policies in adjacent fields such as RNA vaccines, the past year has been anything but smooth for genome-editing therapies. Even so, clinical trials have continued to expand, and a couple of treatments are nearing commercialization. Moreov...


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Perhaps you came across a Science news piece published last week, presented with a fair amount of hype. Title: “Scientists stunned by ‘fundamentally new way’ life produces DNA.” Subtitle: “Newly disc...


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Turn one gene up, another down. Enhancing the photosynthetic capacity of plants will likely require learning how to conduct a complex orchestra of genes. Achieving this could help sequester at least part of the carbon dioxide emissions driving climate change, while also increasing crop yields.

Researchers at the


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