Open and transparent cooperation is vital to science in the new era
China will remain behind the United States as long as it does not have an NIH equivalent. If the administration of US President Donald Trump keeps cutting funds for the NIH and NIH-supported institutions including Harvard University in Cambridge and Columbia University in New York City, then China will catch up or surpass the US soon, said Rao Yi, a leading Chinese scientist.
The world’s first personalized CRISPR therapy was given to baby
Researchers at Columbia University in New York and Riken have created a new enzyme that could be used to insert full-length genes. It’s termed evoCAST, which has an insertion efficiency of up to 30% across multiple genomic sites. The method could pave the way for gene-correction therapies that would be given once, and work regardless of the specific mutation causing an individual’s disease.
It curbed misinformation after the Capitol riots
Scientists at Columbia University, US and University of Chicago, US have found that it is possible to make molecular entanglements in polar molecules. Molecules can rotate and vibrate in ways that are impossible for atoms and polar molecules, which have positively or negatively charged end, can interact over long ranges through electromagnetic forces, they added. This would allow physicists to simulate and understand much wider array of phenomena.