The Download: open source insecurity, and gene editing plants
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world
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Heat is bad for plant health. Here’s how gene editing could help.
Some of the world’s most productive agricultural regions from India to the US Midwest have already broken temperature records this
Read moreThe Download: Cutting cholesterol with CRISPR, and the James Webb Space Telescope’s first image
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world
Read moreEdits to a cholesterol gene could stop the biggest killer on earth
A volunteer in New Zealand has become the first person to undergo DNA editing in order to lower their blood
Read moreThe scientist who co-created CRISPR isn’t ruling out engineered babies someday
The day I spoke to Jennifer Doudna was a tough day: the US Patent Office had just ruled against her
Read moreThe creator of the CRISPR babies has been released from a Chinese prison
The daring Chinese biophysicist who created the world’s first gene-edited children has been set free after three years in a
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