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DNA data storage

First commercial DNA data storage service set to launch in 2019

4 July 2018

A start-up called Catalog claims it will be able to store a terabyte of data in a gram-sized DNA pellet, but questions remain over whether the technology is ready
Electron micrograph of sperm

First attempt to get CRISPR gene editing working in sperm

3 July 2018

Researchers say they have managed to get the CRISPR machinery into mature human sperm, but we don’t know yet whether it can successfully edit sperm genes

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