Second man receives genome-edited pig's heart
A US man has received the second-ever transplant of a pig heart...
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...
Two separate research groups reported the successful transplantation of a pig kidney into a human, after it had been genetically modified to prevent the body from rejecting it...
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...
Two potential new treatments for Alzheimer's disease using the CRISPR genome editing approach have been reported at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands...
Removing additional chromosomes, or arms of chromosomes, can stop cancer cells' ability to form tumours...
A new genome editing mechanism has been developed for the first time from a protein found in eukaryotes...
by Hannah Flynn
Cells in early human embryos are unable to effectively repair the double-stranded DNA breaks made during CRISPR/Cas9-based genome editing...
by Farah Alam
Remission has been seen in patients with treatment-resistant leukaemia in the world's first phase 1 clinical trial for 'base-editing' therapy...
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