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Forget designer babies. Here’s how CRISPR is really changing lives

Forget designer babies. Here’s how CRISPR is really changing lives

Even then, patients won’t get the treatments if insurers and governments balk at paying. It’s a real risk. For instance, a different gene therapy for beta-thalassemia, developed by Bluebird Bio, was pulled out of the European market after governments there refused to pay the $1.8 million price.   CRISPR 2.0 The first generation of CRISPR treatments […]

A de-extinction company is trying to resurrect the dodo

A de-extinction company is trying to resurrect the dodo

Even if Colossal can make what it terms “a functional proxy for the dodo,” there won’t be a clear answer about where to put it. The big agricultural industry in Mauritius is sugarcane farming, and there are plenty of rats and other non-native predators around. “It would not really be a dodo—it would be a […]