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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]

Bacterial RNA-Detecting Enzyme for Liquid Biopsies

Molecular Structure of GsI-IIC RT
Improving the accuracy of liquid biopsy has enormous potential for making cancers more manageable. And to [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]

SHERLOCK for RNA Editing

Gene Editing
Scientists at the Broad Institute, who were involved in the technology of CRISPR gene editing, have developed another molecular [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]

PTSD Brain Repository

Transcription Factors
Post-traumatic stress disorder, which afflicts about eight million Americans, appears to be a proteomic disease. DNA from these suffererss [MORE]

Proofreading RNA

RNA Making DNA Copies in a Droplet of Water
In the evolution of life on Earth, reverse transcriptase played a leading [MORE]

Targeting RNA with CRISPR

Feng Zhang
In a recent Science article, gene-editing pioneer Feng Zhang and colleagues reported a new CRISPR strategy that targets mRNA [MORE]

CRISPR meets the Digenome

Multiplex Digenome Seq
Thinking about the prospects of CASPR-Cas9 gene editing might bring to mind the title of Irving Stone’s biography [MORE]

Correcting CRISPR Cas9’s Off-Targeting

Rice University CRISPR-2
CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing relies on a targeting sequence of RNA and the cutting endonuclease Cas9. In the targeting [MORE]

Artificial DNA Used to Make Enzymes

Synthetic XNAs
Here’s an interesting thought: “Life’s ‘choice’ of RNA and DNA may just be an accident of prehistoric chemistry.” That’s [MORE]

Advance in Gene Editing

Genome Editing
From the beginning of gene therapy, the chief limiting issue was the means for delivering a therapeutic gene. Since [MORE]

Blood Marker Test for Depression

RNA
Here’s a piece that well illustrates Leroy Hood’s “4 P’s” of personalized medicine (i.e. personalized, predictive, preventative, participatory). Investigators at [MORE]

Identifying Oligos with Terahertz Waves

Oligonucleotide
Micro RNAs are hot right now.  They either inhibit or enhance DNA replication by opening up or winding shut DNA [MORE]