CRISPR Again
April 15, 2014 | Terry Sharrer
Tagline first mentioned the gene-editing technique CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palendromic repeats) on March 12, 2013 shortly after researchers at MIT and the University of California, Berkeley demonstrated how it worked in changing specific DNA bases in Streptococcus thermophiles. Since then, CRISPR has been tested in cultured human cells (known for schizophrenia and autism) and laboratory animals, and a company, Editas Medicine (Cambridge, MA) has begun working toward human trials. A link to Editas Medicine in this piece has the publication history of CRISPR thus far. MORE
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