Bacterial scissors to edit human embryos?

Bacterial scissors to edit human embryos?

A recently discovered gene editing tool raises the possibility of precisely targeted changes to human genes, even in the germline. The nascent debate over the ethics and limitations of its use has already been overtaken by events. Is this a whole new Pandora’s box for bioethics?

Bacterial interference in chick embryos.

Chick embryos infected intra-allantoically with nonvirulent staphylococci are protected from death due to infection with virulent staphylococci. The protection is associated with a delay in growth of the challenge strain and a delay in the production of toxic substances in the allantoic fluid. The protection is influenced by the number of bacteria in the protecting and challenge inocula and by ...

To post-edit or not to post-edit?

In the last few years the European Parliament has witnessed a significant increase in translation demand. Although Translation Memory (TM) tools, terminology databases and bilingual concordancers have provided significant leverage in terms of quality and productivity the European Parliament is in need for advanced language technology to keep facing successfully the challenge of multilingualism....

Human–animal embryos to boost UK research

Plans last year by the UK government to block the proposals by researchers to create human–animal hybrid embryos for stem-cell research were withdrawn this spring as the government proposed new mechanisms to consider the issue. Researchers want to create such hybrids because they can provide valuable stem cells to allow researchers to study the development of many incurable diseases, which the ...

Formation of bacterial endospores in chick embryos.