First CRISPR therapy evaluated by FDA advisers
A CRISPR-based treatment for sickle cell disease is one step closer to approval after an advisory committee for the US Food and Drug Administration met to review its safety...
Making deliberate alterations to the DNA sequence at targeted locations in the genome. This can include deleting, inserting or replacing sections of DNA. Several approaches are used to achieve these changes, include zinc finger nucleases (ZFNs), TALENs, CRISPR/Cas and base editing.
A CRISPR-based treatment for sickle cell disease is one step closer to approval after an advisory committee for the US Food and Drug Administration met to review its safety...
Early safety data of a potential CRISPR-based genome editing therapy for HIV have been reported...
Six perspectives on the ethical questions around genome editing are explored in this film commissioned by the Francis Crick Institute...
Macaque monkeys have become some of the longest-surviving recipients of cross-species organ transplants, after receiving genome-edited pig kidneys...
The genome of chickens has been edited to make them partially resistant to infection with bird flu...
A US man has received the second-ever transplant of a pig heart...
A 'NICER' way to edit the genome has been discovered by scientists...
Professor Imogen Goold's lecture about the ethical issues surrounding the use of genome editing in humans gets Ruth Retassie thinking about how our society treats disability...
What does it mean to be human? Have you ever questioned the meaning of self or humanity? Dr Yee Yen Goh reviews the Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar 2022 award lecture, given by Dr Philip Ball...
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