At the same time, in China, some scientists are playing sorcerer's apprentices. He Jiangkui, doctor of biophysics, modified the genome of two little girls in November 2018. He has just been sentenced to 3 years in prison. Beijing ensures that the Middle Kingdom does not become the Far West of genetics.
Do you know the xenobots? The University of Tufts and Vermont have just achieved a feat: designing the very first living robots. Imagine organisms less than a millimeter in size, built from a frog embryo, and able to move thanks to their beating. Another originality: the researchers programmed them by algorithm to resist the vagaries of the living, and thus to be the vectors of drugs to treat the human. Guillaume Grallet from Le Point magazine tells us more.
17 years ago, the dream of geneticists was to map the genome in an international medical project. Their goal: to bring the benefits of precision medicine to everyone, wherever they live. But two scientists realized that these DNA datasets did not play the diversity card. What are the biases of this genetic mapping? How to avoid them? And above all, are our genetic data the next bulwark of privacy? To find out more, we join the co-founder of Global Gene Corp, Jonathan Picker, in Boston.
Finally, what if the future of batteries lay ... in paper?
BeFC, a Grenoble-based company, is betting on enzymes to create "organic" batteries. The idea is to find more sustainable solutions to produce the energy necessary for the functioning of connected objects and electric vehicles. Demonstration.
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