Genome editing successfully treats leukaemia
Doctors at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital have used genome editing to successfully treat two children with leukaemia...
Doctors at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital have used genome editing to successfully treat two children with leukaemia...
The fourth session of the Progress Educational Trust's annual conference 'Rethinking the Ethics of Embryo Research: Genome Editing, 14 Days and Beyond' delved into the new genome-editing technique CRISPR/Cas9 and what it means for embryo research...
by Rachel Siden
In this podcast, Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz and Sarah Norcross discuss the current UK ban on researching human embryos in the lab for longer than 14 days...
Scientists have discovered a new set of proteins that can block the CRISPR/Cas9 system...
Oral arguments from lawyers acting for the Broad Institute and the University of California, Berkeley, in the high-profile CRISPR/Cas9 patent dispute have been heard in Virginia...
by Lucas Taylor
More than 75 percent of those with a genetic condition, and their family members, support the use of genome-editing technology, a survey has found...
by Paul Waldron
Scientists in the US have used a genome-editing technique to partially restore vision in blind rats...
Chinese scientists have injected CRISPR/Cas9 gene-edited cells into a human for the first time...
Researchers have had further success using the CRISPR/Cas9 genome-editing technique to repair the mutation that causes sickle-cell anaemia...
Jewish bioethics may help to broaden the discussion of the ethical concerns that emerge from editing the human genome...
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