A disputed paper that raised questions about the safety of CRISPR has been retracted:
A scientific paper that purported to lay bare serious flaws in the gene-editing tool known as CRISPR and briefly tanked shares of genome-editing companies has been retracted by its publisher.
The paper [DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.4293] [DX], published last year in Nature Methods, claimed that CRISPR wreaked havoc on the genome, causing hundreds of unintended mutations in mice — and that the algorithms typically used to detect these changes were routinely missing them.
[...] Two months after publication of the paper, Nature Methods published an "an expression of concern" about the paper in July. The retraction notice, appended Friday, goes further, saying the authors did not use mice that had been bred in their own laboratory — so they could not know if any genetic mutations were the result of their intervention with CRISPR editing, or if it stemmed from variations in the mice's own genomes.
Nature Methods editorial discussing the retraction: CRISPR off-targets: a reassessment (open, DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.4664) (DX)
Previously: CRISPR Safer than Thought; Misleading Study Found Shared Mutations in Closely Related Mice
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday April 04 2018, @08:37PM (3 children)
The "Educational Deficit" is the difference in adult IQ that results from an enriched education. It's 20 points.
When I took an IQ test in eighth grade, the testing shrink told me that a difference of 20 points makes it impossible for two people to relate to each other, doubtlessly the reason that AC gives me such grief.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 04 2018, @09:31PM (2 children)
A difference in 20 points explains the Educational Deficit.
You can't make a person taller by putting him on a basketball team.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday April 05 2018, @01:45AM (1 child)
Not sure what you imply here.
You reckon the intelligence is strongly correlated with the bone length?
Or with brain mass/volume? (brain weights: sperm whales - 5.4–6.8 kg, elephant - just over 5 kg, human - a measly 1.5kg).
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 05 2018, @11:46AM
Rather, intelligence allows for higher education.