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In 2018, He Jiankui uploaded a series of videos to a YouTube channel titled “The He Lab” that detailed one of the first instances of a successful…
Literaturegene editingGenome EditingCRISPR (Genetics)CRISPR-associated protein 9In 2015, Revive…
conservationAnimal diversity conservationWildlife conservationgene editingbioethicsMultiplex Automated Genome Engineering, or MAGE, is a genome editing technique that enables scientists to quickly edit an organism’s DNA to produce…
TechnologyGenetic EngineeringGenetic engineering industryGenetic epidemiologyGene librariesThe Boys from Brazil is a science fiction film based on the novel of the same name by Ira Levin about an underground neo-Nazi society in South…
LiteratureEugenicsGenetic EngineeringReproductive technologyBiotechnologyIn 1962 researcher John Bertrand Gurdon at the University of Oxford in Oxford, England, conducted a series of experiments on the developmental…
Cell nuclei--TransplantationGenetic EngineeringNuclear TransplantationUniversity College (University of Oxford)Xenopus laevisIn the early 2000s, Sabata Martino and a team of researchers in Italy and Germany showed that they could reduce the symptoms of Tay-Sachs in…
Tay-Sachs DiseaseVirus-vector relationshipsGloboid Cell LeukodystrophyGangliosidesGene TherapyGattaca is a 1997 science fiction film produced in the US that depicts a future society that uses reproductive technology and genetic engineering in…
LiteratureEugenicsGenetic EngineeringReproductive technologyBiotechnologyIn March 2011 the Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association and around sixty agricultural organizations (OSGATA et al.) filed a suit against…
ContextGenetic EngineeringPatent laws and legislationAgricultural biotechnologyTransgenic organismsIn 2003, Carmina Gisbert and her research team produced a tobacco plant that could remove lead from soil. To do so, they inserted a gene from wheat…
PhytoremediationtobaccoLeadSoil PollutioncadmiumIn the second half of the twentieth century, scientists learned how to clone organisms in some species of mammals. Scientists have applied somatic…
CloningCell nuclei--TransplantationSpemann, Hans, 1869-1941Genetic Engineering