Sentences with phrase «editing technology made»

A revolutionary gene - editing technology made headlines this year as much for the ethical and societal issues it raised as for the scientific accomplishments it enabled.

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Google releases sophisticated photo - editing tools: Google announced it has integrated photo - editing technology Snapseed into Google +, making transforming and tweaking photos, well, a snap.
In the past few years new robotics, computational biology, and gene - editing and gene - synthesis technologies have emerged to make synthetic biology efficient and cost - effective.
No babies have been born with changes made by CRISPR / Cas9 or any other gene - editing technology.
Together, the studies illustrate that the gene - editing technology can make a variety of changes in human DNA that would last a lifetime and stretch across generations.
The discovery, made possible through a combination of cutting - edge stem cell and gene - editing technologies, could lead to ways of countering age - related physiological declines by preventing or reversing damage to heterochromatin.
Talk of curing AIDS made front - page news last year, in part due to an astonishing new gene - editing technology: lab - engineered proteins called zinc finger nucleases.
The work is the fruit of the Innovative Genomics Initiative, a joint effort between UC Berkeley and UCSF that aims to correct DNA mutations that underlie human disease using CRISPR - Cas9, a pioneering technology co-developed by scientists at UC Berkeley that has made genome editing easier and more efficient than ever before.
She said the team may also explore «gene editing technologies» to take out the portion of the gene that allows the bacteria to take the plant's food, which would make the cotton more resistant.
«Taking medical problems like DMD from the patient to the lab bench and then back to the patient is the vision, and these new gene - editing technologies are making this vision a reality.»
Varieties made with newer gene - editing technologies — such as CRISPR, for example — may not contain any definitive evidence of tinkering.
In the case of genome editing of human embryos, however, it seems likely that technology will make the next move.
«Employing the latest technology, including CRISPR / Cas9 — a powerful new tool that enables scientists to make precise genome edits — I believe we have the opportunity to make great strides toward developing a therapy specifically for Huntington's disease.»
Using the technology, Pal's lab has made many seminal contributions, including evidence for the existence of the nuclear - encoded plastid transcription system and identification of key elements involved in promoter recognition, translational initiation, and RNA editing site specificity.
This model is particularly amenable to gene editing technology, which makes it possible to design cells with specific disease - relevant mutations — a boon for those studying the cause and progression of metabolic diseases of the liver.
The National Academy of Sciences is launching an effort to guide decision making on human gene editing technologies such as Cas9 / CRISPR
The new technology, known as a gene drive, is genetic engineering on an entirely new scale: It makes it possible not just to modify organisms in the laboratory, but to edit the genes of entire populations in the wild.
Drug delivery guru Daniel Anderson of Massachusetts Institute of Technology points out that one of the most advanced programs is Sangamo Biosciences» ongoing clinical trial to remove T cells from patients, edit their DNA to make them resistant to HIV, and reinject the modified cells.
Debate about so - called germline editing of eggs, sperm and embryos has been going on for decades, but it has come to a head in recent years with the development of a powerful new gene - editing technology called Crispr - Cas9 that can make extremely precise edits to DNA and which was used by the Chinese team and would be used by the British team.
Through a process of precise hybridization, made possible with modern genome editing and reproductive technologies, we can produce a new hybrid generation of the passenger pigeon ecotype that carries a small but important genetic legacy of its extinct forebears.
But editing the DNA of cells in a petri dish — or even curing a mouse of a disease — is one thing; making the hot new technology work in humans is a whole other challenge.
That willingness to wander, to maybe even get a little lost, could be how she was able to make a creative break from earlier genome - editing technologies.
Fortunately, emerging technology has made it possible to create brain, heart, and liver cells from a primate skin biopsy16 and edit the DNA of these cells in the laboratory.
Investigators at the Gene Editing Institute, which is part of the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center & Research Institute at Christiana Care, said their new «cell - free» CRISPR technology is the first CRISPR tool capable of making multiple edits to DNA samples «in vitro,» which means in a test tube or petri dish.
Nobel laureate David Baltimore of Caltech speaks to reporters at the National Academy of Sciences international summit on human gene editing, on Tuesday in Washington, D.C. Hundreds of scientists and ethicists from around the world debating how to deal with technology that makes it easy to edit the human genetic code.
Loss - of - function studies are key for investigating gene function, and CRISPR technology has made genome editing widely accessible in model organisms and cells.
I am definitely not able to use technology well enough to create and edit a full video to make it look the way I would want.
The editing is crackerjack — not the usual frantic, sea - sick causing cuts that we're accustomed to, but sharp cuts from Africa to North America to England, while the special effects make us wonder to what extent such technology really exists — and if it does, how come we have not wiped out all terrorists» nest by now?
Of course, there are lots of ways to step up the traditional essay to make it a more effective learning experience through the use of technology - for example, by using collaborative editing and revising.
Students who make the fanciest PowerPoint presentations, can run a projector, or edit video are more accepted — and even more popular — as students in every social clique want to do the very best they can with technology.
In response to some issues with the brand's stop - start buttons, it has made some quiet edits to the technology in most new Toyota models.
But, containing the discussion to the creation of independently reported / written / edited news journalism, the wide availability of «content» has more to do with the rapid search / aggregation / duplication / distribution of news made possible by digital technology; it has nothing to do with the amount of original news content being created.
You can't see the photo in 3D (and that's a good thing), but using Real Sense technology can make editing images pretty awesome.
Thus in the Preface to Person and Object (1979) he writes «The book would not have been completed without the epoch - making File Retrieval and Editing System...» [21] Brown University's work in electronic book systems continued for many years, including US Navy funded projects for electronic repair - manuals; [22] a large - scale distributed hypermedia system known as InterMedia; [23] a spinoff company Electronic Book Technologies that built DynaText, the first SGML - based e-reader system; and the Scholarly Technology Group's extensive work on the Open eBook standard.
Murphy edited the California Technology Stock Letter, a highly regarded and well - followed investment advisory newsletter that tracked and made recommendations on technoloTechnology Stock Letter, a highly regarded and well - followed investment advisory newsletter that tracked and made recommendations on technologytechnology stocks.
Technology was changing rapidly, and with new trades came new tricks — film editing, for example, made relatively lo - fi special effects possible.
«Its all about light» 99th ACSA Annual Meeting: WHERE DO YOU STAND Conference Proceedings 2011 «Discreet Machines of Desire: from Edward Bernays to Robert Oppenheimer» ACADIA 2010 Conference LIFE in: formation, New York, 2010 edited by Pablo Lorenzo - Eiroa Conference proceedings: «Time Promise Land: Notes on our current geographies» CÍRCULO DE BELLAS ARTES, Madrid Spain, 2010 edited by Remo Guidieri Architecture on the Way to Archetype about John Hejduk «Hejduk, Hamlet and the Ghost Promise» National Science Foundation, Making Science Visible, Conference Rhode Island School of Design / Brown University, Providence, 2010 edited by Chris Rose «Embodied Knowledge Navigating Disciplinary Geographies» «Ineffable: Architecture Computation and the In - expressible» New York, 2010 edited by Bradley Horn «Globe Double: Mimetic Capital; Technology» published by Oscar Irera Ojeda, Loft Publications.
«RES» Anthropology and Aesthetics The Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology, 2011 Harvard University «Globe Double: Mimetic Capital; technology», edited by Remo Guidieri «Works in Progress» Rhode Island School Of Design Essay, «Playing with Broken Glass» 2008 «The Making Of Design Principles» Rhode Island School Of Design, Providence, edited by Kyna Leski Introductory Essay, «Empathy; Material and Spatial» 2007 «RES» Anthropology and Aesthetics The Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology, 2002 Harvard University «Prefigure is Epilogue,» edited by Remo Guidieri «GLOBALIZACION, COMUNICACION, ARQUITECTURA» XIII Bienal De Arquitectura, Santiago De Chile, 2002 «LA — RAZON», La Paz, Bolivia Interview in the daily newspaper of La Paz.
A number of works document the process of making, whether filming the actual production process or including references to certain prevalent forms of technology such as the Internet and desktop editing.
Over the last few years, Cortright has been using Adobe Photoshop to make paintings, lightly hacking both the technology and the intended social use for this program — as an image - editing platform, Photoshop is frequently used to alter the appearance of women in photographs.
The most successful and mesmerizing use of technology in this exhibition is Hockney's multi-screen video works, and in a room at Tate Britain titled «The Four Seasons», visitors can enjoy a truly immersive experience surrounded by 4 screens, each made up of several smaller screens, and each showing carefully edited footage of a different season in the same stretch of road at Woldgate, near Bridlington in Yorkshire in 2002.
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