'CRISPR-Gold' repairs muscular dystrophy gene in mouse model
Scientists have repaired the faulty gene in a mouse model of muscular dystrophy by using gold nanoparticles to deliver the genome editing tool CRISPR-Cas9...
A genome-editing platform that uses an enzyme (Cas9) to make a double-stranded break at a specific location in the genome, directed by a guide RNA.
Scientists have repaired the faulty gene in a mouse model of muscular dystrophy by using gold nanoparticles to deliver the genome editing tool CRISPR-Cas9...
The latest CRISPR offering in the TED world comes from Dr Helen O'Neill, a molecular geneticist at University College London, UK. Her talk aimed to 'explore how and why the world and its inhabitants are constantly changing'...
A genome editing technique called 'base editing' has been used to correct the mutation causing the inherited blood disorder beta-thalassemia in human embryos...
by Rikita Patel
The new era of gene technology presents an exciting approach to treat deleterious, inherited genetic conditions. Presenter Jim Al-Khalili talks to Professor Jennifer Doudna, from her early life to her research into molecular biology, to the development of
by Paul Waldron
UK scientists have successfully edited the genome of human embryos to study the role of a gene key to the earliest stages of development...
Organoids and CRISPR/Cas9 have been combined in a novel method to study genetic mutations occurring in cancer...
A group of scientists have challenged the landmark study which reported the first successful editing of human embryos for a genetic disease...
I'm glad to see a scientist engaging so strongly in public debate about the use of technology, rather than speculating on the sidelines...
by Emma Lamb and 1 others
Scientists have repurposed CRISPR to target the repetitive RNA sequences responsible for several genetic diseases...
Over a 100 new genes that may be essential for cancer immunotherapy to work have been identified using a new CRISPR-based screen...
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