FDA's Ninety-Day Comment Window on CRISPR Safety Opens to a Second Docket on Monday
Docket FDA-2026-D-1255 is on the record and the formal comment period begins Monday; a parallel Plausible Mechanism docket FDA-2026-D-1256 closes April 26.
Kenji Nakamura
Bureau: Tokyo
Six West Antarctic Basins May Already Be Past Their Tipping Point, a New Nature Paper Says
Nature Climate Change maps tipping thresholds below 1°C of pre-industrial warming — and global mean warming is already at 1.3°C.
23andMe's Nature Paper Ties a GLP1R Missense Variant to a Modest but Real Efficacy Signal
Twenty-seven thousand eight hundred and eighty-five participants, one missense variant in GLP1R, and 0.76 kilograms more weight loss per copy — the effect is small, the biology is confirmed.
H5N1 Has Learned to Grip a Cattle Sugar That Humans and Birds Do Not Make
Two mutations let cattle-adapted H5N1 bind NeuGc; pigs, sheep and horses make NeuGc too, which is the cross-potential the paper is naming.