20 – 26 February 2017
Pakistan Sharia Court Approves Test Tube Babies with Conditions
Pakistan’s Federal Shariat Court, in a landmark ruling, has approved test tube babies in the country while saying that babies can only be made through male sperms and female egg of legitimate married couples only. Find source
Craig Venter Mapped the Genome. Now He's Trying to Decode Death
Craig Venter launched an effort that sequenced human DNA two years earlier than planned. Now he's back trying to take the DNA information he helped unlock and figure out how to leverage it to cheat death for years, or even decades. Find source
China scientist convicted in U.S. of theft of engineered rice
A federal jury on Thursday convicted a Chinese scientist in Kansas of conspiring to steal samples of a variety of genetically engineered rice seeds from a U.S. research facility, the U.S. Justice Department said, the latest attempt at agricultural theft linked to China. Find source
The race to map the human body — one cell at a time
London-based charity Cancer Research UK announced that Hannon’s team of molecular biologists, astronomers and game designers would receive up to £20 million (US$25 million) over the next five years to develop its interactive virtual-reality map of breast cancers. Find source
Scientists Say Induced Hibernation Could Help Us Fight Cancer
Putting cancer patients into a hibernation-like 'deep sleep' state could hypothetically slow down their bodily functions and halt the spread of tumours inside their tissues, while also increasing the body's resistance to radiation, scientists suggest. Find source
