Professor David Liu, the developer of base editing and prime editing, has won the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, the largest annual monetary award in science...
A genome editing approach has been used to correct a disease-causing genetic variation in people, for the first time...
An artificial intelligence model has been developed that is capable of decoding genomes and designing synthetic DNA, RNA and proteins...
A CRISPR genome-editing therapy has been shown for the first time to provide long-term genome correction in lung cells for treatment of cystic fibrosis in mice...
Genome editing has been successfully used to treat liver disease in fetal monkeys while still in the womb...
Premature ovarian insufficiency is a relatively common cause of female infertility, leading to a menopause-like state before age 40. Dr Elena Tucker and Professor Andew Sinclair from the Unversity of Melbourne, Australia, explain the advances in understanding the genomic component of this condition...
CRISPR base editing therapy reduced cholesterol levels in the blood of a small cohort of patients, clinical trial interim data has shown...
The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Professor Katalin Karikó and Professor Drew Weissman for their discoveries relating to nucleoside base modifications, which contributed to the development of mRNA vaccines...
Remission has been seen in patients with treatment-resistant leukaemia in the world's first phase 1 clinical trial for 'base editing' therapy...
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