UK Parliamentary committee publishes report on genomics and genome editing
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...
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...
by Jen Willows and 1 others
A new highly sensitive diagnostic system for diseases has been adapted from CRISPR...
by Seán Byrne
A recent Wall Street Journal article, 'DIY Gene Editing: Fast, Cheap – and Worrisome', describes the Saturday afternoon of teenager, Kian Sadeghi, as he learns to use CRISPR/Cas9 at the Genspace Community Lab in Brooklyn, New York. Like many news ar
by Jen Willows
The European Patent Office has declared that it intends to grant a broad patent for the use of CRISPR technologies to the University of California, the University of Vienna and Dr Emmanuelle Charpentier of the Max-Planck Institute in Berlin...
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...
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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