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Another Gene Editing System

New Gene Editing Proteins Found Outside of CRISPR Systems
“Scientists at MIT’s McGovern Institute and the Broad Institute of MIT and [MORE]

CRISPR-CasMini

 
Engineered miniature CRISPR-Cas system
Stanford bioengineers report: “we create an efficient miniature Cas system (CasMINI) engineered from the type V-F Cas12f [MORE]

Engineered Cells Implanted to Reduce Inflammation

Implant scaffold with engineered cells release drug to treat inflammation
Building on their work with anti-inflammatory cartilage cells, researchers at Washington [MORE]

Another Win for CRISPR

CRISPR therapy for rare blood diseases
“Back in 2019 the first CRISPR human clinical trials kicked off in the United States. [MORE]

Gene Editing for Cystic Fibrosis

Evaluating CRISPR-based prime editing for cancer modeling
“Prime editing is a recently reported genome editing tool using a nickase-cas9 fused to [MORE]

First in vivo Use of CRISPR-Cas9 in a Human

CRISPR-Cas9 In Vivo Gene Editing for Transthyretin Amyloidosis
“Transthyretin amyloidosis . . . is a life-threatening disease characterized by progressive accumulation [MORE]

Retron Recombineering

Gene-editing tool “sneaks” DNA into cells without cuts
“Researchers [Wyss Institute] have created a new gene editing tool called Retron Library [MORE]

CRISPR’s On-Off Switch

 
CRISPR Off On switch
MIT and University of California at San Francisco have developed a process that better controls CRISPR gene [MORE]

Light-Activated Liposome in Gene Delivery

Spherical liposomes are light activated for CRISPR gene therapy
Because liposomes are considered safer than viral vectors for gene delivery, researchers [MORE]

Genetic Screening of Organoids

CRISPR-LIGHT tool for genetic screening tool for organoids
CRIPSR-Lineage Tracing at Cellular resolution in Heterogeneous Tissue (CRISPR-LICHT) is the term researchers [MORE]

2020 Nobel for Chemistry, 1980 déjà vu

Winners of 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Recombinant DNA and CRISPR gene editing are watershed technologies for the life sciences.  But [MORE]

A More Precise CRISPR

Improved CRISPR Cas9
Off targeting has always been a problem for the otherwise remarkable CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology.  To improve the [MORE]

CRISPR’s Thirteen Different Cas 9 Cutting Enzymes

Crispr Cas9 molecular scissors
Computational biologists at the Institute for Basic Science (Daejeon, South Korea) have identified thirteen different variations of [MORE]

Restoring Hearing Loss from a Genetic Mutation (Mice)

Base editing for restoring hearing in mice
From Harvard researchers:  “[We] used base editing methods to treat a mouse model of [MORE]