Genetic engineering - animals

Five-day-old zebrafish embryos under a microscope: the normal embryo (top) and the transgenic embryo (bottom) carrying the gene with the disease-causing mutation. It can be seen that in the transgenic embryo the main lymphatic vessel is abnormally enlarged

From the clinic to the aquarium: New zebrafish-based drugs for a rare lymphatic disease

A unique collaboration between the Weizmann Institute of Science and Sheba Medical Center led to the discovery of two potential drugs for a life-threatening disease of the lymphatic system.
The process of gene editing in sperm-derived ESCs to create bipaternal blastocysts.

Chinese scientists engineer a mouse with two male parents

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Researchers in China have created a mouse from two ancestors by editing genes in stem cells. The groundbreaking study could impact our understanding of reproduction and the future of medicine.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0045682

Chinese researchers are proposing to create tardigrade super-soldiers

Chinese researchers propose combining genes from tardigrades (water bears) to improve the ability of human cells to deal with radioactive radiation
Blood-sucking mosquitoes, one of the most dangerous disease carriers. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Genetically modified mosquitoes - now proven to be a success

Researchers spread transgenic mosquito eggs containing a genetic defect that they transfer to the mosquito population in areas plagued by mosquito-borne diseases, thereby reducing the mosquito population to a considerable extent
The Anopheles mosquito, the carrier of malaria. Image: depositphotos.com

The goal: stopping the reproduction of malaria mosquitoes. The middle: genetic editing of the Y chromosome

The middle: genetic editing of the Y chromosome
A farm in Scotland. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The UK eases the restrictions on the editing of gardens in crops and stocks

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The British government plans to ease restrictions on gene editing in order to speed up research and allow genetically modified crops and stocks to reach the market * In any case, these are changes that could have been made along the way
A superhero Pegasus fights a Chimera, according to Greek mythology. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Things that Yoram knows: Is it possible to create a hybrid of a human and a monkey?

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Elior asks: Is it possible to take a woman's egg and fertilize it with another animal's sperm? (For example, a monkey or a tiger..)
honey. Photo: depositphotos.com

Bio-U Honey has applied for a patent for methods for the production of cultured honey

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The goal: the creation of an artificial honey stomach that traces the activity of the bee's stomach * CEO Ofir Devash: "Bi-U Devash is working on the development of a breakthrough technology that will change the face of the global honey market and enable products
Yeast in a milk drink - kefir. Photo: depositphotos.com

Cow's milk - the next generation will be produced from yeast

mildew. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The surprising genetic evolution of ancient plants

Cultured chicken meat. Cilosrur SuperMeat

The first laboratory meat restaurant opened in Israel

A pair to die for. Photo: illustration: depositphotos.com

A cocktail of nano-antibodies produced from the animal will succeed in stopping the corona virus efficiently and at low cost

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Compared to standard antibody therapies currently in advanced clinical stages, which are very expensive and can easily cost over $100,000 per patient, engineered nanoantibodies can be produced cheaply, on a large scale—the well-matched
On the right, Jennifer Daudena and Emmanuel Charpentier. Illustration: © Nobel Media. Ill. Niklas Elmehed.

"It was difficult for Emmanuel Charpentier to publish because no one was interested in infectious diseases as long as there was no epidemic"

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This is what Prof. Harmona Sorek from the Institute of Life Sciences at the Hebrew University says in an interview with the Scientist website, who is happy about the decision to award Emmanuel Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna the Wolf Prize last year. Now Charpentier is establishing the
Prof. Emmanuel Charpentier. Courtesy of the Wolf Prize Foundation

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2020 was awarded to the scientists who developed the "genetic numbers" CRISPR immediately after winning the Wolff

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Elimination of mosquito pests through genetic engineering. Infographics

Mosquito genetics

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Prof. Emmanuel Charpentier. Courtesy of the Wolf Prize Foundation

The Crisper keys win the 2020 Wolf Prize in Medicine - the reasons for the prize committee

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Chicken coop at feeding time. Photo: shutterstock

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have developed an innovative genetic technology that can reach 100% accuracy in determining the sex of the fetus

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fruit fly. Photo: shutterstock

Animal avatars, or - how a cancer patient got help from 300,000 flies

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A doctor examines children in Africa. Photo: shutterstock

Africa begins to spread genetically modified mosquitoes

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squid. Photography: Richard.

The DNA secrets of the squid

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The Aedes aegypt mosquito, which is among the transmitters of the Zika virus. Source: James Gathany / PHIL, CDC.

The mosquitoes will save us from... the mosquitoes

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DNA replication using RNA. Illustration: shutterstock

An innovative method for DNA replication

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Illustration depicting the behavior of a drop of water in oil within an electric field. [Courtesy: COPYRIGHT (C) 2015 TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED]

An innovative method of introducing genes into cells

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genetically modified food. Illustration: shutterstock

Reflections - genetically modified food - myth and facts / Bracha Reger and Uri Kogan

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Today they roast real meat, tomorrow - meat grown in a laboratory. Photo: shutterstock

Researchers have made a lab-engineered hamburger. The price is 250 thousand pounds, the financier: Sergey Brin from Google

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Intelligent design-millennium version: Soon we will be able to design living beings with predefined properties

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Salmon sashimi. From Wikipedia

Are the genetically engineered fish close to the plate?

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Nuclear waste in northern Australia

The voice of the skeptic - the left's war on science / Michael Shermer

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Prof. Yoel Sussman. Photo: Weizmann Institute

Insects will serve as "factories" for human proteins

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Nachshon Yam Green. From Wikipedia. Photography: NEIL

Bio-engineering - the Nachshon Haim apprentice / interview by Gareth Cook

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The relationship between gene activity and the number of binding sites of control proteins present in the control region of the gene. Shades of red and green show the level of gene activity (red indicates a high level of activity). The gray graph shows the maximum level reached by the activity of each type of control protein. Illustration: Eran Segal, Weizmann Institute

Weizmann Institute scientists have developed a method that makes it possible to make tens of thousands of targeted changes in the DNA of living cells and measure their effect

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Adult Aedes aegypti mosquito. From Wikipedia

The Destroying Garden / Bijal P. Trivedi

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Binimino Perlagrasso - hen and chicks. A 19th century painting by a painter who died in 1902 and is therefore in the public domain. From Wikimedia

The first crocodile-crocodile: the scientist who turned a chicken into a crocodile in the laboratory

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Image of Escherichia coli under a scanning electron microscope

Biofuel from bacteria

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From the right: Dr. Amnon Buxboim, Dr. Shirley Dauba, Prof. Roi Bar-Ziv and Dan Bracha

Dense in the genome

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Bacterial gene therapy using a laser. Photo: MIT University

The first artificial bacteria - and all the others that will follow

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The m-mycoides bacterium is synthesized from Craig Venter's laboratory. Photo: University of California at San Diego

Synthetic Biology: Venter and the Synthetic Genome 2007 – 2010

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The synthetic bacteria M. mycoides JCVI-syn1 of the Craig Venter Institute. Photo by electron microscope University of California San Diego

Scientists have developed a synthetic magnum bacterial cell

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To Prof. Yoram Gruner. Photo: Weizmann Institute

Prof. Yoram Gruner from the Weizmann Institute of Science will receive the Rothschild Prize in Life Sciences on Thursday

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Transgenic pigs - Enviropiglets. Photo: University of Golf, Canada

Environmental pig

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Right: Dr. Alexandra Wallon-Eberhard, dr. Chen Verol and Prof. Stefan Jung.

The balance between the populations of dendritic cells in the intestine is a condition for the proper functioning of the digestive system

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

How do DNA coils Individuals join together

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sense of smell. Photo: shutterstock

A fateful courtship

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Between hope and disaster - about genetics and genetic engineering

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

DNA sequence

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

The fight against malaria takes a step forward: a virus capable of infecting the Anopheles mosquitoes

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

From a mouse to a bat - in a laboratory experiment

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

A question of existence - science will help fight hunger

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Reporting from the field

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

A genetically modified protein in goat's milk will slow the spread of Alzheimer's

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