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I think now is the starting place of where we get to make those choices." "I think we are in the midst of a genetic revolution. I think this is, like, literally, a new era of human beings," he said.

An international team of researchers led by the University of California San Diego has developed a new strategy to enhance pharmaceutical production in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells, which are ...

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The synthetic bacteria contain a shorter genetic code with 57 codons rather than 64, freeing up space for further edits that might lead to new drugs or virus-resistant microbes ...