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NIH Bets $190m on CRISPR

CRISPR DNA Repair
It appears that CRISPR gene editing has reached a tipping point. Clinical trials with this technology have already [MORE]

Gene Editing without Cutting DNA

Gene Editing
Salk Institute scientists have demonstrated how it’s possible to use two genetically engineered AAV vectors that result is altering [MORE]

Human Immunity to Cas9 Proteins

CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing
Stanford researchers have reported troubling news about CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing. Their report “demonstrates that there are pre-existing humoral [MORE]

Metabolic Engineering

Huimin Zhao Developed Efficient Metabolic Engineering Process
CRISPR gene editing usually targets one DNA sequence at a time, but now researchers [MORE]

Non-Viral Vectors for CRISPR Delivery

MIT CRISPR Gene Editing Tool Without Viruses
CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing has mostly depended on viral vectors to deliver the cutting enzyme [MORE]

Reversible RNA Editing

The Broad Institute’s pioneering lab for gene editing has developed a version of CRISPR that permits reversible RNA editing. “The [MORE]

“Chemical Surgery” to Remove Single Point Mutations in DNA

Base Editing
CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing is the new tool in the box of molecular surgeons, but this method deletes multiple bases [MORE]

CRISPR Skin Grafts Instead of Insulin Injections

Gene Therapy Via Skin
Researchers at the University of Chicago have used CRISPR gene editing to establish proof of concept in [MORE]

CRISPR-Cpf1 Gene Editing

CRISPR Cas Method
Gene editing technology known as CRISPR has only been known to science for four years, but its impact [MORE]

CRISPR Gene Editing by Middle Schoolers

Genspace Student Programs
Max Planck once observed that major breakthroughs in science rarely proceed by converting skeptics. Instead, breakthroughs are taught [MORE]

CRISPR Diagnostics for Infectious Diseases

MIT Professors Collins and Zhang SHERLOCK Developers
CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing has been thought to be most useful in altering DNA, rather [MORE]

Nanoparticle-Enabled Gene Editing

CRISPR Delivery Mechanism
Getting CRISPR-Cas 9 molecules to their target cells without damage or off-targeting has been an obstacle for gene [MORE]

Building Better Lab Rats

Wistar Rat
Rats do more work in medical research than mice, but mice get all the glamour. (50% more scientific publications [MORE]

Gene Therapy’s Breakout

CRISPR-Cas9 Mode of Action
September 14, 1990 was the first FDA approved human clinical trial for gene therapy. The patient, then [MORE]