Cracking the Covid code
Meet an Edinburgh PhD candidate tracking the pandemic’s mutations… A group of students at the University of Edinburgh are in the vanguard of the microscopic war against Covid-19, trying to…
The next generation of CRISPR-Cas9 begins
Being only announced five years ago, CRISPR-Cas9 still feels like a revolutionary new technique – but the next generation of CRISPR-Cas9 technology has already been created. A team of scientists…
Mystery illnesses diagnosed through genome study
In 2003 a significant breakthrough was announced. The Human Genome Project (HGP) had successfully read the entire genetic code of a human being, comprising 20,000 or so genes and the…