Biotechnology notebook

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  • First patient treated with first-ever gene fix for deadly rare disease

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    Andy Wang
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    I recently watched a Youtube video about a new kind of personalized gene editing. I looked up articles about this advance and discovered that doctors at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia applied customized CRISPR gene-editing treatment to rescue a baby who had a rare and lethal genetic disorder. This success not only offers hope for…

  • Conductive Bacteria

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    Andy Wang
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    I have always been interested in how electric eels could produce their own electricity. If we could use animals to help our research in developing new fuel sources, it would help pollution. Now we are one step closer. Scientists have identified a new species of cable bacteria, Ca. Electrothrix yaqonensis, which acts like electrical wiring,…

  • Tattooing Tardigrades

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    Andy Wang
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    So recently, I came across this article titled “Scientist have found a way to ‘tattoo‘ tardigrades.” I was immediately intrigued and started reading. Scientists used ice lithography, a micro fabrication technique, to tattoo tardigrades. Since tardigrades are nearly indestructible, they were the perfect test subject. To do this, researchers applied a protective anisole layer and…