Reducing Huntington’s-related repeat expansions in patient cells and in mice(nature.com)

20 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 2 comments

Serious errors plague DNA tool that's a workhorse of biology(nature.com)

77 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 9 comments

New CRISPR systems hold promise for genome editing(nature.com)

135 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 31 comments

An epigenetic editor to silence genes(science.org)

116 points by Teever 2 years ago | 15 comments

Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution(nature.com)

100 points by unsuspecting 6 months ago | 113 comments

Syphilis microbe's family has plagued humans for millennia(nature.com)

44 points by Hooke 2 years ago | 23 comments

Scientist treated her own cancer with viruses she grew in the lab(nature.com)

570 points by dataminer 1 year ago | 198 comments

Nature news article about virologist Beata Halassy, who treated her own breast cancer with lab-grown oncolytic viruses, and researchers' warnings against copying her.

Cheap blood test detects pancreatic cancer before it spreads(nature.com)

331 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 196 comments

Nature news article from February 2025 about an inexpensive blood test that can detect pancreatic cancer before it spreads to other parts of the body.

New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study(lji.org)

615 points by codebyaditya 3 months ago | 262 comments

La Jolla Institute for Immunology news release on a new HIV vaccine approach that produced high levels of HIV-neutralizing antibodies in non-human primates.

Virus Stole a Human Gene and Won't Let Go of It(nytimes.com)

83 points by gumby 27 days ago | 31 comments

A New York Times science article about the molluscum contagiosum virus that acquired a human gene; the capture shows a bot-block page instead.

We need scientific dissidents(chronicle.com)

355 points by Georgelemental 3 years ago | 848 comments

Chronicle of Higher Education opinion essay arguing that the early artificial consensus on Covid's origins shows the need for scientific dissidents.

Encrypting private data and private communications is now an ethical duty(blog.tripu.info)

416 points by gasull 3 years ago | 200 comments

A personal blog essay arguing that end-to-end encrypting private data and communications has become an ethical duty, using a glass-walls analogy.