Sentences with phrase «developing synthetic alternatives»

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To achieve gene editing in mice with thalassemia, professor of therapeutic radiology and of genetics Peter M. Glazer, M.D. and his co-authors developed an alternative approach using a novel combination of nanoparticles, synthetic pieces of DNA, and a simple IV injection.

So Virginia Cornish, a synthetic biologist at Columbia University, and her team set out to develop an alternative test with a long shelf life and no refrigeration using Saccharomyces cerevisiae, commonly known as baker's yeast, as their model fungus.

In spite of the fact that nowadays there are much safer synthetic alternatives to asbestos, the mining of white asbestos continues as well as the exporting of cancer causing material to the developing world, particularly by Canada, which has been criticized The Lancet, a medical journal, for the claimed hypocrisy of Canada banning asbestos usage, but continuing to export the deadly material.