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WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- The prestigious U.S. journal Science on Thursday chose a popular gene editing tool called CRISPR, which acts as a type of molecular scissors able to selectively trim away unwanted genome parts and replace it with new DNA stretches Cheap Men's Nike Shox NZ Black Gold , as the 2015 Breakthrough of the Year.
It's an "unprecedented selection," the magazine's Managing News Editor John Travis said, given that the three-year-old technique appeared twice before among Science's top 10 breakthroughs, in 2012 and 2013, and is the only one to subsequently be elevated to the year's most groundbreaking scientific achievement status.
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For example, researchers successfully used the tool to remove potentially harmful DNA sequences at 62 locations in the pig genome this year, overcoming a major hurdle for humans to receive life-saving organ transplants from pigs.
Meanwhile, CRISPR was used to develop a long-sought gene drive, a system that allows the rapid transmission of an introduced gene throughout insect populations faster than natural selection would permit. Researchers believed such a system could help eliminate pests or the diseases they carry Cheap Men's Nike Shox Avenue All Black , including creating malaria-blocking mosquitoes.
In April, Chinese researchers described their use of the technology to edit nonviable human embryos from a fertility clinic, in a world first that prompted an international summit this month in Washington, D.C., to discuss human gene editing.
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Bioethicist Hank Greely of the Stanford University compared CRISPR to the Model T Ford.
"The Model T wasn't the first car, but it changed the way we drive Cheap Off-White X Nike Air Vapormax Black White , work, and live," Greely told the New Yorker. "CRISPR has made a difficult process cheap and reliable. It's incredibly precise. But an important part of the history of molecular biology is the history of editing genes."
"It's only slightly hyperbolic to say that if scientists can dream of a genetic manipulation, CRISPR can now make it happen," Travis said. "For better or worse Cheap OFF WHITE X Nike Air Force 1 Low The Ten All White , we all now live in CRISPR's world."
The nine other major scientific achievements of 2015 selected by Science included:
The voyage of the New Horizons spacecraft past Pluto in July;
The lymphatic system exists in the brain;
Engineering yeast to produce opiates;
Experimental confirmation of the correlation in the quantum state of two widely separated particles, a process called "entanglement";
Improvements in seismic imaging provided long-sought confirmation of the existence of mantle plumes, responsible for midplate volcanoes such as Hawaii;
The successful development of an Ebola vaccine;
Improving reproducibility for psychological science;
A new member of the human family was revealed from a hidden cave in South Africa harboring 1500 human fossils;
DNA sequencing of Kennewick Man, a 8,500-year-old skeleton found in 1996 in Washington state Cheap OFF WHITE X Nike Blazer Studio Mid The Ten White Black , showed that today's Native Americans are direct descendants of Asian people who crossed the Bering land bridge at least 15,000 years ago.
MEXICO CITY, March 10 (Xinhua) -- Mexico will seek to deepen cooperation with the U.S. in a number of areas, including trade and energy, announced the Minister of Economy Ildefonso Guajardo on Friday.
During a joint press conference in Washington with U.S. Commerce Secretary, Wilbur Ross, Guajardo stated that the two countries share "an important, strong and complex" relationship.
He added that Mexico is keen to deepen bilateral cooperation in energy, trade and investment as well as helping to strengthen micro, small and medium enterprises.
The official statement saw Guajardo thank Ross' commitment and interest in "working hand-in-hand with Mexico."
"The new global economy presents challenges and opportunities for North America, which Mexico and the U.S. can better face together," said the minister.
"Mexico is open to maintaining constructive dialogue, to find mechanisms to increase North America's competitiveness, to strengthen value chains, and to modernize the areas which regulate commercial ties between Mexico and the U.S.," pointed out Guajardo.
Guajardo's meeting with Ross comes at a time of high tensions between the two countries with President Donald Trump determined to build a border wall, as well as possibly slapping high tariffs on Mexican exports and renegotiating NAFTA.
At the end of January, Trump invited Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto to meet in Washington but the Mexican leader later cancelled the trip, stating that such a meeting was pointless without due respect for "national sovereignty...and the ties of friendship and cooperation between the two people."
Later phone conversations between the two presidents led to an agreement to let senior government officials from both sides meet first.
by Fu Yiming, Li Jizhi and Zhang Xuan
STOCKHOLM, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) -- The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics are shared by three scientists, announced the Royal Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on Tuesday.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 was divided Cheap Off-White X Air Max 90 Ice All White , with one half awarded to Rainer Weiss, the other half jointly to Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves."