These Gene-Edited Chickens Were Made to Resist Bird Flu
The gene edit also helped limit the spread of the virus. Four ordinary chickens were placed in the same incubator with the gene-edited birds that had already been exposed to …
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Harvard gut doctor avoids these 4 foods that cause inflammation—and what she eats instead
Inflammation is an essential process that increases blood flow to an infected area of the body, and carries in immune system cells to heal it. But it can be uncomfortable, …
For the Love of God, Stop Microwaving Plastic
At the start of his third year of graduate school, Kazi Albab Hussain became a father. As a new dad and a PhD student studying environmental nanotechnology, plastic was on …
The Secret Ingredient in Your Craft Beer? Gene-Edited Yeast
While the startup cofounders considered hoppy-tasting but hop-free beer potentially beneficial to brewers and the environment—as Denby said in a New York Times story after the paper was published—some hop …