CRISPR genome editing corrects a Duchenne muscular dystrophy deletion mutation in mice
Two genome editing approaches can correct a variety of mutations associated with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, researchers have shown...
Two genome editing approaches can correct a variety of mutations associated with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, researchers have shown...
Scientists are able to study changes in single DNA molecules of any human tissue with unprecedented accuracy, for the first time...
In order to be approved for use in the UK, vaccines must meet the strict standards of safety, quality and effectiveness set out by the independent Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency...
A type of genome editing had been used in mice to treat the symptoms of progeria, a fatal premature ageing disease in children...
A complete DNA sequence of the human X chromosome has been produced, the first time a human chromosome has been read in its entirety...
by Jen Willows
US scientists have developed a method of making precise edits to mitochondrial DNA within living cells...
Refined base editing techniques that appear to reduce off-target effects may improve the accuracy of future gene therapies, according to new research...
So, you think Watson and Crick discovered DNA? I did too, until I attended a talk by Professor Gareth Williams at the Royal Institution, called 'Unravelling the Double Helix'...
Two new studies suggest that a form of CRISPR base editing is more error-prone than previously thought...
Genome editing has been successfully used to treat a serious liver disease in fetal mice while still in-utero...
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