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Chinese scientists are not always bothered by ethical issues and are forcibly moving forward with genetic editing. The molecular scissors CRISPR no longer holds any secrets for them and they use it without complex to transform living organisms. This is what a team of scientists has just achieved by modifying the molecular scissors CRISPR.

Since the dawn of time, debates and controversies have clashed over the origin of life. Scientists have just published an article accumulating evidence of an extraterrestrial origin for certain species living on Earth. This is the case for certain viruses and cephalopods that have genetic characteristics that we do not know about.

The fight against doping in sports competitions has become a truly global sport. Not a Tour de France, a vintage of the Olympic Games, a world championship, without mentioning doping. The hunt for cheating athletes often makes the headlines, but that is not always the case.

The next food on your plate will be genetically modified, but it will not be a GMO in the conventional sense. It will have been modified using CRISPR, a new technique that allows scientists to fine-tune the DNA of a plant to give it a better taste,

We all call for environmentally friendly chemistry and industrial production methods and personalized medicine. Synthetic biology has a key role to play in meeting some of these requirements. It offers innovative solutions in several sectors. For example,

A new study, conducted by researchers from Cambridge University, Institut Pasteur, Paris Diderot University, CNRS and the genetics company 23andMe, suggests that our empathy is not only the result of our education and experience, but is also partly influenced by

Biotechnology is on the rise and now represents a major economic and societal challenge. However, far from science fiction stories and faced with a succession of "feats", they are still poorly understood and raise many questions. The fact remains that the top start has been made and that we will have to fasten our seatbelts.

DNA sequencing has become common practice in laboratories. The methods are improving every day and allow scientists and physicians to make considerable progress in their research. But have you ever wondered where that DNA came from? The question is not often asked, but yet the DNA trade

The announcement that has just been made on the occasion of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, could take on a historic dimension impacting the whole of humanity. It is nothing less than the sequencing of the genome of everything that lives on Earth and the preservation of its codes.

  The Etats Généraux de la Bioéthique are being held until May with more than 60 debates organized throughout France. The aim is to feed into the revision of bioethics laws that the government is due to carry out at the end of 2018. An opportunity to identify the expectations of the population and to capture

On 18 January, the "Etats généraux de la bioéthique" (General Assembly on Bioethics) was launched. This broad consultation of citizens precedes the revision of bioethics laws scheduled for 2019. It covers subjects as different as the extension of medically assisted procreation (MAP) to women in couples and to single women, and genetic testing,

As the "Etats Généraux de la Bioéthique", organized by the French National Consultative Committee on Ethics (CCNE), opens on January 18, preceding the revision of the law, Ifop and the European Forum on Bioethics, in partnership with the newspaper La Croix, have asked the French people how they view the new law.

Over the last ten years, the rate of discovery of exoplanets has increased dramatically. Today, even Google's artificial intelligence is involved. With each new discovery announcement, the question that immediately arises is: when will we be able to explore these distant worlds? And the second question that immediately comes to mind

Two groups of scientists have revealed a new, more precise arsenal of genetic editing techniques that could one day help us eradicate genetic diseases through highly chemically targeted surgery. New adaptations of CRISPR-Cas9 allow DNA base pairs to be modified on

A research project developed by British scientists from the University of York and the University of Leeds has established how to write code that can govern the assembly of viruses. In other words, the researchers claim to be able to write code to control the

In fairy tales, only a magic wand could turn a frog into a prince or a mouse into a horse! But in the real world, turning one living being into another is not so easy. Whatever... In fact, in recent years, scientists have discovered

Photosynthesis is the most common source of energy on Earth. Nature has created true solar power plants in plants. The process relies on chlorophyll, the green pigment designed to harvest sunlight. One downside to this miracle: only 10 % of the energy