Tag Archives: mRNA

In the last few days many newspapers had in the headlines the (so far) successful transplant of a pig heart into a human. It is a first in xenotransplantation (transplant from a different species) and for sure it is worth making the headlines. There was a pig-heart human transplant in …

CRISPR-CasX The CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) – Cas  (CRISPR Associated Protein) system was discovered, and invented, in the last century, the first reference is found in an article in 1987. The CRISPR was discovered in bacteria: they are short DNA sequences that bacteria have inherited from viruses …

The last Megatrend presented in the FTI’s report focusses on Synthetic Biology and its application in Agriculture. Synthetic Biology is the idea, now a practice, of being able to create/modify life in a bottom up way, composing the strand of life, DNA and in some cases RNA, in ways that …