CRISPR cancer therapy trial gets go-ahead in US
The first in-human use of the genome-editing technology CRISPR has been approved by a US federal safety board...
The addition of one or more nucleotide base pairs into a DNA sequence. Insertions into the coding region of gene (insertion mutations) often stop the gene working.
The first in-human use of the genome-editing technology CRISPR has been approved by a US federal safety board...
by Ayala Ochert and 1 others
The team that developed the CRISPR/Cas9 DNA-editing technique have now developed a new system that could allow RNA editing...
The European Commission has granted marketing authorisation for a gene therapy to treat children with an extremely rare, life-threatening genetic disorder...
by Rebecca Carr
A gene therapy for children with a rare but life-threatening genetic disorder that severely weakens the immune system has been recommended for approval by the European Medicines Agency...
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...
An experimental cell-based treatment using gene editing, previously only tested on mice, has successfully reversed advanced leukaemia in a one-year-old girl...
Researchers at the University of Oxford have estimated that only 8.2 percent of human DNA has been left unchanged as the species has evolved and is therefore likely to be functional...
Research has shown that it may be possible to 'cut' the viral DNA out of cells infected by HIV using genetic editing techniques, removing its ability to replicate...
Two patients with the serious inherited blood disorder beta-thalassemia have been able to stop blood transfusions 12 days after receiving experimental gene therapy...
by Siobhan Chan
Bacteria with two extra synthetic DNA bases in their genome have been created in the lab for the first time...
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