SEARCH CONTACT US

ACCESSIBILITY

24/7

Headlines

Miami extends warm embrace to Israeli innovation

El Al CEO: "We'll reserve seats for the high-tech sector on selected destinations"

Leumi CEO: “For Israel’s 77th year of independence, we’ll establish a $77M high-tech fund”

Florida enthusiastically welcomes Calcalist conference to Miami

Buzz

Most popular

Daily

Weekly

1

Oracle CEO: "If we continue on our current trajectory, reaching a valuation of a trillion dollars is inevitable"

2

Is your solitaire opponent actually a bot?

3

Cloudera acquires Israeli startup Octopai to advance metadata and AI integration

4

Former Snyk founder Guy Podjarny secures $125M for AI-powered software startup Tessl

5

CyberArk and Wiz join forces to enhance cloud security in multi-cloud environments

CRISPR

6 stories about CRISPR

מימין ג'ניפר דאודנה ו עמנואל שרפנטייה זוכות פרס נובל כימיה 2020

Nobel Prize for CRISPR inventors re-sparks the debate on science’s ethical boundaries

09.10.20|Dov Greenbaum

The purported facility of the DNA-editing process raises numerous questions and concerns over the control and regulation of the technology

Ido Margalit CanBreed

CanBreed secures patent for editing medical cannabis seeds

02.09.20|James Spiro

The company wants to expedite its stable seeds enhancement for commercial purposes by using gene-editing technology, but still faces regulatory hurdles due to EU GMO ban on CRISPR technology

אהרון אהרון מנכל רשות החדשנות

Israel Innovation Authority Approves Establishment of Genome Editing Consortium

03.06.20|Adi Pick

The consortium will be allocated with a total of NIS 36 million (approximately $10.36 million) for a period of 18 months

Josiah Zayner, Ph.D מוסף ליאור קאופמן unnatural selection

The Bio-Hacker From the Garage Next Door

06.12.19|Omri Rosen

Dogs that glow in the dark and people who mess with their own genetic code: an Israeli filmmaker went on a journey to visit people who rewrite DNA using technology they ordered online with a few hundred dollars

תינוק תינוקות מחלקת יולדות ילודה

Is CRISPR the New In Vitro Fertilization?

30.12.18|Dov Greenbaum

New technologies always carry the risk of giving birth to a Dr. Frankenstein, but usually even those initially tested outside of the medical ethical consensus become widely-accepted and self-policed, writes researcher Dov Greenbaum

The Ethical Issues Behind China’s CRISPR Twins

30.11.18|Meitar Bilu and Dov Greenbaum

Earlier this week, a researcher announced the successful impregnation of a woman and birth of twin baby girls carrying CRISPR altered genomes, sparking global controversy