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Gene editing approach paves the way to first-in-human clinical trial for rare genetic disease
A collaborative effort between investigators at the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), a founding ...
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SalioGen Therapeutics hit by layoffs, as gene-editing biotechs continue to struggle
SalioGen Therapeutics, a company that raised $135 million to develop a new gene-editing technology, has instituted widespread ...
C&EN4dOpinion
Editorial: Gene editing is an opportunity for chemistry’s good governance
In March 2023, the Organising Committee of the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing published a statement ...
JD Supra18h
The Future of Food: Regulatory and Patent Landscape of Genome Editing in Food Technology
Our current food system is facing a myriad of critical challenges. The United Nations predicts that the world population will ...
The New Yorker1d
Jennifer Doudna on the Brave New World Being Ushered In by Gene Editing
The technology’s promise can sound like science fiction—it might help us adapt to a radically different climate, or grow ...
He Jiankui, scientist known for gene-editing babies, is out of prison and ready to rejoin the science community
Dr. He has a new lab up and running on the Chinese island of Sanya, which is funded by unidentified donors in China and the U ...
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A pariah in science, the ‘CRISPR babies’ researcher gains support from a U.S. cryptocurrency entrepreneur
Not even six years after the 'CRISPR babies' scandal, there are signs that pressure to relax rules governing gene-editing of ...
Reason19d
DIY Genome Editing at Only $2 a Pop
CRISPRkit aims to make "gene editing accessible for everyone, everywhere." Aimed at K-12 students and people of any age curious about the how the revolutionary CRISPR gene-editing works ...
Science Daily24d
Compact 'gene scissor' enables effective genome editing
"By engineering the small but powerful protein TnpB, we were able to design a variant that shows a 4.4-fold increase in efficiency of modifying DNA -- making it more effective as a gene editing ...
Phys.org27d
Team develops gene editing strategy for macroalgae Neopyropia
the gene editing in Neopyropia, which is crucial for research of both genetic breeding and reverse genetics, is hard to realize. Recently, the research team led by Prof. Wang Guangce from the ...
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Scientists at ChristianaCare gene editing institute use CRISPR tools to safely disable gene mutation linked to treatment-resistant melanoma
In a potential advance for melanoma patients, researchers at ChristianaCare’s Gene Editing Institute have used CRISPR gene editing tools to disable a gene mutation often seen in aggressive forms of ...
MIT Technology Review20d
Space travel is dangerous. Could genetic testing and gene editing make it safer?
Astronauts and commercial space travelers are subject to damaging radiation and microgravity, along with other potential injuries. We need better ways to protect them. This article first appeared ...