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Embryo in a Mechanical Womb
Cell Crunch (Issue 2021.03.19)
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📰 Bioengineering in the News
A machine-learning CRISPR approach for sustainable buildings on Mars. Money.
EX UTERO MICE: For a Nature study, researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science grew mice in little bottles, ex utero. The mouse embryos developed up to the hind limb formation stage, and the researchers have grown more than 1,000 embryos using this method. The New York Times. Link (Also covered in Science, MIT Technology Review and Future Human.)
UK CRISPR NEWS: The UK is considering a departure from EU regulations on gene-edited food, opening the gates for CRISPR-edited crops. A government department “is proposing that gene-editing technology should not be regulated in the same way as GM, if it yields a result that could have been produced by conventional breeding,” according to…
