louisrcouture, French Public reminder that #gmo are well regulated and safe to eat. Also gmo and #bioengineering can provide numerous advantages such as more nutrients, less or no pesticides needed
saalo, German Halli hallo! Ich bin #neuhier und momentan #schülerin an einem Gymnasium, wo ich mich auf #biotechnology konzentriere. Meine Interessen umfassen #veganfood , #vegetarian , #medizin , #biologie und den Schutz von #tieren .
#noafd ist definitiv mein Slogan und neben dem #schwimmen , liebe ich es #psychothriller oder #bücher über #philosphie zu #lesen .
Zusätzlich sind meine Familie und ich ziemliche #harrypotter , bzw. #hogwarts Fans. #klimaschutz und #environment liegen mir ebenso am Herzen.
cbarbermd, Using CRISPR gene-editing technology, scientists have successfully snipped out HIV from infected cells. Much more work needs to be done before this could possibly be used in people, but it’s a start...
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-68609297 #crispr #hiv #medicine #geneediting
harold, "Any quest to prove beyond doubt that #GMO s are safe will run into the same roadblock, as nothing can be proven 100% safe. More than 2,000 studies and 20+ years of consumption by humans and animals have produced no evidence that GMOs represent an unusual health risk. Every major health and regulatory body in the world agrees."
mem_somerville, Anti-#GMO folks want cool and new products so bad, they pretend they aren't #GMO and try to sell them.
Baker Creek Seeds caught selling a purple tomato, claiming it was a non-GMO variety. It was even the cover girl of their catalog!
ai6yr, @mem_somerville Ack
flowolf, German Wirklich gutes ECO Spezial zu #Gentechnik.
Erklärt schön was #CRISPR tut, und warum es eigentlich keinen Grund für die Angst gibt, die viele vor 'Gentechnik' haben. Natürliche #Züchtungen sind ein Eingriff, der schon seit Jahrtausdenden durch den Menschen passiert.
kravietz, There’s a strong movement in support of #GMO in upcoming European Parliament vote. Interestingly, the support is coming from scientific and environmental experts, including some #organic farmers:
Nearly three dozen Nobel laureates have joined more than 1,000 scientists in urging members of the European Parliament to embrace science-based gene editing technology. New Genomic Techniques, they write in a petition, “hold immense promise for sustainable agriculture, enhanced food security, and innovative medical solutions.”
Surprising? But if you start with the definition of “organic farming” as farming that attempts to minimize negative impact on environment, it makes perfect sense. Genetically organic plant varieties require less herbicides and pesticides and less land, which means they actually do support biodiversity more than traditionally cultivated varieties.
UP8, 🦻 Experimental gene therapy allows kids with inherited deafness to hear
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-01-experimental-gene-therapy-kids-inherited.html
#generics #gmo #genetherapy #medicine #health #hearing #deafness #disability
JostMaurin, German Der Umweltausschuss des EU-Parlaments spricht sich gegen die Kennzeichnung von mit neuen #Gentechnik-Methoden wie #Crispr erzeugten Lebensmitteln aus. #Bio-Bauern, Umweltschützer und Grüne hoffen jetzt auf das Plenum https://taz.de/!5984645/ #Landwirtschaft
KnowableMag, With the first medical therapy approved and systems like CRISPR-Cas showing up in complex cells, there’s a lot going on in the genome editing field. Here’s our primer. https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2024/crispr-gene-editing-therapy-systems-eukaryotic-cells?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=originals
#Crispr #crispr_cas9 #ScienceMastodon #gene_editing #KnowableMagazine
richardbadge, Ooh, as ever "the awesome power of yeast genetics" gives us a fascinating, and surprising, result: yeast with rhodopsins can harvest energy from light! #SyntheticBiology #ApologiesPaywalled https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)01744-X
snailman, @richardbadge That is pretty amazing - transfer of a single gene?!
auscandoc, I received the new gene-editing drug for sickle cell disease. It changed my life. | MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/04/1084209/vertex-exacel-approval-gene-editing-sickle-cell-disease-patient/ “I’d lived with #SickleCell my whole life—experiencing chronic pain, organ damage, and hopelessness. To me, this opportunity meant finally taking control of my life and having the opportunity to be a present father.
The drug I received, called #ExaCel, could soon become the first #CRISPR-based treatment to win approval from the US Food and Drug Administration,”
matt_mala, Do you want to identify the neighbours of your favourite cells but are unsure where to start?
Check out our Primer, just out in @Dev_journal , for an overview of synthetic neighbour-labelling systems and of how they can be used in developmental settings.
Huge thanks to @CellySally, Tamina Lebek and Guillaume Blin for a real fun writing experience!
#DevBio #SynBio #StemCells #Cell #Cells #Development #SyntheticBiology #Synthetic #Biology #Science #ScienceMastodon
matt_mala, Hello!
I'm a synthetic developmental biologist at The University of Edinburgh.
I'm interested in understanding how cells influence their neighbours in mammalian models of #DevBio and disease.
I use #SynBio to identify neighbours of cells of interest (e.g. healthy neighbours of mutant cells), and to engineer cell behaviour in response to these interactions.
I do this in pluripotent #StemCells and their derivatives.
I look forward to keeping up with everyone's cool research!
greenaspen, American Academy of Pediatrics advises avoiding #GMO foods due to #glyphosate residues
Pediatricians urge more transparency & more research on GMO foods.
A new clinical report issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) in #UnitedStates – to provide guidance to clinicians in providing pediatric care addresses concerns raised by families about #GM foods. It focuses on the risks of the herbicides sprayed on #GMfood & feed crops – especially glyphosate. https://mailchi.mp/gmwatch.org/american-academy-of-pediatrics-advises-avoiding-gmo-foods-where-practical-due-to-glyphosate-residues?e=bdb7fe5132
peterbrown, @greenaspen thankfully we have no GMO food in Scotland. 🏴
greenaspen, @peterbrown that has been true since start of devolution, but your relief (and mine) at our #GMfree status in #Scotland may be about to end. Current plans by Westminster government to deregulate new #GeneEdited crops and food will mean that Scottish government will be powerless to prevent their cultivation and sale here, courtesy of the #postBrexit #UK single market Act …a device largely designed to emasculate our devolved powers on a wide front.
scottwilson, OMG if this is true, it's HUGE!!!
HOWEVER, the price of treatment is in-freakin-sane. Normal people can't afford it.
"FDA approves cure for sickle cell disease, the first treatment to use gene-editing tool CRISPR"
scottwilson, "Until now, the only known cure for sickle cell disease was a bone marrow transplant from a donor, which carries the risk of rejection by the immune system, in addition to the difficult process of finding a matching donor."
"[This new treatment] removes the need for a donor. Using CRISPR, it edits the DNA found in a patient’s stem cells to remove the gene that causes the disease."
warroza, Polish Gościem podkastu Radio Warroza @radiowarroza jest biolog genetyk profesor Paweł Golik. Dyrektor Instytutu Genetyki i Biotechnologii na Wydziale Biologii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. W pierwszej części wywiadu rozmawiamy o powstaniu i ewolucji życia na Ziemi oraz skąd się wzięły owady zapylające i kulturalne gadające małpy.
W drugiej części wywiadu rozmawiamy o biotechnologii, inżynierii genetycznej oraz o GMO. Racjonalnie rozważamy to zagadnienie w kontekście środowiska człowieka, pszczół i pszczelarstwa. Mam nadzieję, że zachęciłem.
https://warroza.pl/pawel-golik-powstanie-i-ewolucja-zycia/
#ewolucja #biologia #gmo #zapylacze #RadioWarroza #pszczelarstwo #pszczoly #pestycydy
phoca2004, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/31/health/sickle-cell-fda-cure-crispr.html?smid=url-share CRISPR is a stunning technology allowing for minute tweaks to genes. This is potentially life altering for so many people and comes at long last. #CRISPR #Sicklecell
jobRxiv, Postdoc in Holobiont Synthetic Biology
Imperial College London
Tom Ellis's lab at Imperial College London is hiring a synthetic biology #synbio postdoc to develop engineered biosensor cells for use in holobionts
See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/imperial-college-london-27778-postdoc-in-holobiont-synthetic-biology/?feed_id=63085
#ScienceJobs #hiring #r...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/imperial-college-london-27778-postdoc-in-holobiont-synthetic-biology/?feed_id=63085
warroza, Polish Kolejny ciekawy przypadek owada zaliczanego do tzw. szkodników.
Tantniś krzyżowiaczek (Plutella xylostella) gąsienice ćmy pożerają warzywa krzyżowe, takie jak kapusta, brokuły, kalafior i jarmuż, globalnie kosztując rolników szacunkowo 5 miliardów dolarów (3,2 miliarda funtów) rocznie na całym świecie. Ćma ta była pierwszym szkodnikiem upraw, który rozwinął odporność na DDT i ostatecznie stała się odporna na 45 innych insektycydów. W Malezji ćma ta stała się odporna na wszystkie syntetyczne opryski. W 2015 r. firma Oxitec opracowała genetycznie zmodyfikowane tantnisie, które wytwarzają niezdolne do życia żeńskie potomstwo, aby mieć kontrolę nad populacją.
warroza, Polish Owad z rodziny Męczelkowatych (Braconinae) rodzaju Atanycolus pasożytując na swoich gospodarzach motylach (np. jedwabniku) jednocześnie przenosi wirusa Bracovirus, który nie czyniąc szkody swojemu wektorowi jednocześnie modyfikuje genetycznie jego gospodarza doprowadzając go do śmierci. Jest to przykład "naturalnego GMO". fot: Richard Bartz, Munich aka Makro Freak
warroza, Polish Dzisiaj trochę o moim zdaniem ładnych i fajnych owadach, które uznawane są w kulturach ludzkich niestety zwykle za szkodniki.
Śródziemnomorska muszka owocowa (Ceratitis capitata) jest szkodnikiem rolniczym o zasięgu globalnym. Atakuje szeroki zakres upraw (ponad 300), w tym dzikie owoce, warzywa i orzechy, powodując znaczne szkody. Firma Oxitec opracowała genetycznie zmodyfikowane samce, które posiadają śmiertelny gen przerywający rozwój samic i zabijający je przed narodzinami. Po kilku pokoleniach populacja much zmniejsza się, ponieważ samce nie mogą już znaleźć partnerek. Aby hodować te muchy w laboratorium, można "wyciszyć" śmiertelny gen za pomocą antybiotyku tetracykliny (źródło: Wikipedia).
#takDlaGMO #Gmo #owady #muchy #antropocentryzm #muchy #przyroda
ttpphd, Glyphosate (Monsanto) is associated with increased hearing difficulty in a dose dependent manner.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37562738/
Hsiao CC, Yang AM, Wang C, Lin CY. Association between glyphosate exposure and cognitive function, depression, and neurological diseases in a representative sample of US adults: NHANES 2013-2014 analysis. Environ Res. 2023
#Auditory #Epidemiology #GMO #Herbicide #Pollution #Health #MedMastodon #Biology #Neuroscience #Science
noyes, 1)Over the weekend, I decided to see how glyphosate interacted with the Complement System. I found a paper that said 'We dosed some fish with glyphosate and 61 days later, titers of C1-INH rose.' It then went in to explain that the fish were not in a closed system, had been subject to everything in the runoff flowing through their habitat, and that this may be a seasonal escalation.
Then I found a dozen papers that made that statement 'Exposure to glyphosate causes increases in C1-INH
erictopol, "It sounds science fictional except it's science real."—Fyodor Urnov
Where are we heading with #CRISPR genome editing?
https://erictopol.substack.com/p/on-genome-editing-with-fyodor-urnov#details
Powerfromspace1, @erictopol ☝️ 🧪 this time for good 👍🏾 of humankind
warroza, Polish Dziś specjalnie dla Fediverse premiera czwartego odcinka w Polanka TV: "Pszczele Wieści - o przyrodzie naukowo" @pszczelewiesci o dobę wcześniej niż na YouTubie.
- Kał w żuwaczkach pszczół. 01:12
- Modyfikacja genetyczna bakterii jelitowych może pomóc pszczołom. 18:20
- Afrykanizacja – zagrożenie dla pszczelarstwa. 26:05
Z napisami po polsku i angielsku jeszcze przed korektą.
https://tube.pol.social/w/dmbuzHMwdSCnMpxH7WjEwW
#pszczoły #pszczelarstwo #nauka #PopularyzacjaNauki #owady #gmo #takDlaGMO #NapisyPL #NapisyENG