Doubt over human embryo editing study
A group of scientists have challenged the landmark study which reported the first successful editing of human embryos for a genetic disease...
A group of scientists have challenged the landmark study which reported the first successful editing of human embryos for a genetic disease...
Two major biotech companies have criticised a recent study that claimed CRISPR may cause hundreds of unwanted mutations...
CRISPR may introduce hundreds of unwanted mutations into the genome, a small study finds...
A recent large-scale study that discovered 83 rare genes related to human height reveals the power of so-called genome-wide association studies...
by Amina Yonis
More than half of patients with sarcoma, a rare cancer, have mutations that are known to increase the risk of other types of cancer...
by Rachel Siden
Chinese scientists plan to start the first-ever clinical trial of CRISPR genome-editing technology in humans — on patients with lung cancer — this August...
We report from the third session of the annual conference of the Progress Educational Trust, titled 'Genome Editing and CRISPR: The Science of Engineering the Embryo', which discussed these new technologies and how they might be used in the future...
by Ari Haque
A US biotechnology start-up co-founded by two pioneers of CRISPR technology intends to begin gene editing in humans as part of an experimental treatment to target a rare genetic eye disorder...
Scientists in China have used the gene-editing technique CRISPR/Cas9 to create dogs with increased muscle mass...
Scientists have identified a new version of the gene-editing technique CRISPR, which could enable greater precision in the editing of genomes, while making its use simpler and more flexible...
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