Plan to build synthetic human DNA genome gains momentum
Human DNA could be artificially synthesised in around five years or less, according to one of the organisers behind the Genome Project-write plan...
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.
Human DNA could be artificially synthesised in around five years or less, according to one of the organisers behind the Genome Project-write plan...
by Brian Nolan
The European Patent Office and the United States Patent and Trademark Office have been thrust into a dispute pitting the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Vienna against the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University. Scientists
by Sandy Starr
The Science and Technology Committee of the UK Parliament's House of Commons has published a brief report of its wide-ranging inquiry into genomics and genome editing...
Radiolab explores the science, the uses and the ethics of CRISPR in this podcast that was two years in the making...
Chinese scientists have successfully used genome editing to correct mutations in viable human embryos for the first time...
The regulatory mechanisms governing organ development are, in general, poorly defined. To recreate the complex processes involved in organ growth and maturation, scientists have started fiddling with three-dimensional (3D) cell culture...
by Ryan Ross
The US Patent and Trademark Office has upheld the right of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard to the genome-editing tool CRISPR/Cas9...
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...
by Rachel Siden
The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics has published a statement recommending caution over the clinical application of genome editing...
Professors Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier have won the 2017 Japan Prize for their work on the genome-editing technology CRISPR/Cas9....
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