Major US report supports human genome editing
An influential advisory group has given cautious support to the idea of making heritable changes to the human genome in order to treat or prevent disease...
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.
An influential advisory group has given cautious support to the idea of making heritable changes to the human genome in order to treat or prevent disease...
Professors Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier have won the 2017 Japan Prize for their work on the genome-editing technology CRISPR/Cas9....
Scientists have developed bacteria which can live and grow with DNA containing extra 'letters'...
The first early human—pig embryo chimeras have been created by researchers at the Salk Institute, California...
The fourth session of the Progress Educational Trust's annual conference 'Rethinking the Ethics of Embryo Research: Genome Editing, 14 Days and Beyond' delved into the new genome-editing technique CRISPR/Cas9 and what it means for embryo research...
Scientists have discovered a new set of proteins that can block the CRISPR/Cas9 system...
Oral arguments from lawyers acting for the Broad Institute and the University of California, Berkeley, in the high-profile CRISPR/Cas9 patent dispute have been heard in Virginia...
by Paul Waldron
Scientists in the US have used a genome-editing technique to partially restore vision in blind rats...
Chinese scientists have injected CRISPR/Cas9 gene-edited cells into a human for the first time...
Researchers have had further success using the CRISPR/Cas9 genome-editing technique to repair the mutation that causes sickle-cell anaemia...
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