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Fringe Idea: Should We Gene-Hack Animals to Make Them Smarter?
Dr. More Oh Scientists are learning more and more ways to gene-hack new traits into animals, including genetic alterations that could enhance their intelligence. In March, scientists altered monkey...
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Scientists Use Gene-Hacking to Breed Hornless Bulls
GMO Bulls Scientists figured out how to gene-hack bulls so that they never grew horns — a development expected to make dairy farming easier and safer for workers and less painful for bulls. "We've...
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This Scientist Wants to Gene-Hack Hybrid Humans to Survive Mars
DNA Upgrades Traveling to Mars is too dangerous for humans, and will remain so unless scientists figure out how to properly shield astronauts from the onslaught of deadly cosmic radiation. Typically,...
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Scientists Are Creating Mouse-Human Hybrids
Mighty Mouse A team of scientists has created the most thoroughly-integrated mouse-human hybrid yet. Eventually, doctors hope that these chimeras — organisms engineered to have the cells of multiple...
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A Shot of This Gene Editing Serum Appears to Prevent Heart Disease in Monkeys
If a new experiment is to be believed, a single gene-editing injection could someday eliminate the risk of heart disease. Doctors from the biotech company Verve Therapeutics injected 13 monkeys with a...
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Report: Gene-Hacking Plants and Animals Could Fight Climate Change
Feed Me, Seymour When we think of geoengineering the environment to counteract global climate change, we typically conjure the image of massive projects like blocking out sunlight. But a new report...
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Scientists Tried to Gene Hack Cows to Survive Climate Change but the Cows Died
Touch of Gray To help the cattle industry survive the disastrous environmental impacts of climate change — caused in part by the industry itself — scientists are gene-hacking cows to be more resilient....
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New Injection Can Gene-Edit Specific Parts of the Brain, Scientists Say
A team of scientists have developed a new gene-editing tool that, for the first time, can target the specific cells or organs that doctors want edited — including specific areas of the brain. While...
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Scientists Want to Gene-Hack Coral Reefs to Survive Climate Change
Hot Water Rising ocean temperatures pose a serious threat to the world's coral reefs, leading to mass bleaching events that have killed off vast swaths of the oceanic ecosystems. But some coral doesn't...
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Genetic Engineering Makes Paralyzed Mice Walk Again
Thanks to a genetically-engineered protein, a team of German scientists was able to repair completely-severed spinal cord nerves in mice, allowing them to walk again even after total paralysis. The...
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Scientists Gene-Hacked a Pest Caterpillar's Eggs to Self-Destruct
Planned Obsolescence To protect crops from the pesky fall armyworm, a caterpillar that plagues farmers around the world, a team of scientists altered its DNA so that any eggs it lays will...
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A Startup Is Working on Gene Hacked Trees to Gobble Up Tons of...
Planting Supertrees The climate change emergency continues to worsen and threaten the survival of countless species — humans included. As a result, the list of possible solutions is growing...
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The Army Gene-Hacked Disease-Spreading Mosquitoes To Make Them Infertile
Pest Control Scientists working for the US Army Research Laboratory found a new way to genetically alter the mosquito Aedes aegypti in a way that can decimate wild populations, hopefully keeping...
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Scientists Gene Hack Hamsters Into Hyper-Aggressive Monsters
Hamster Brawl Scientists say that a little gene hacking turned adorable hamsters into vicious monstrosities. Researchers at Georgia State University may have published the scientific understatement of...
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Startup Says It's Gene Hacked Trees to Suck Up More Climate-Destroying CO2
Faster Stronger From Iceland's giant carbon capture machine to CO2 vodka, scientists and innovators have been chasing affordable carbon capture technology — tech that's able to soak up and reuse, or...
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Scientists Gene Hack Random Plant to Grow Cocaine
In what's surely exciting news for some of you out there, scientists in China claim to have genetically modified an obscure plant to produce cocaine in its leaves. According to New Scientist,...
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Gene Hacking Offers Hope for Regrowing Bald Guys' Hair
In promising news on the baldness front, an international team led by researchers at Northwestern University claims in a recently-published study to have successfully gene-hacked mice to stimulate hair...
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Scientists Create Gene-Hacked Monkey That Glowed Green
Behold! Scientists in China have announced the birth of a glowing green monkey. Yes, it's real. As The Independent reports, the lab-born primate has made history as the world's first live-born...
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Scientists Gene-Hack Bacteria to Turn Waste Plastic Into Kevlar-Like Spider Silk
Upcycling Goals Now that's how you upcycle. In a recent study, researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute were able to gene-hack a strain of bacteria to turn wasteful polyethylene plastic into a...
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You Can Now Buy Gene-Hacked Houseplants That Glow in the Dark
Flower Power Bioluminescent houseplants are now a thing, and they're gonna put those old Chia Pets to shame. In a press release, the synthetic biology startup Light Bio announced that its...
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