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Beta thalassemia and sickle cell are two red blood cell disorders which both come with massive health implications and shortened lifespans, but at least for UK-based patients the former may …read more Continue reading Potential Cure For All of England’s Beta Thalassemia Patients Within Reach
Beta thalassemia and sickle cell are two red blood cell disorders which both come with massive health implications and shortened lifespans, but at least for UK-based patients the former may …read more Continue reading Potential Cure For All of England’s Beta Thalassemia Patients Within Reach
Beta thalassemia and sickle cell are two red blood cell disorders which both come with massive health implications and shortened lifespans, but at least for UK-based patients the former may …read more Continue reading Potential Cure For All of England’s Beta Thalassemia Patients Within Reach
Everybody loves roses, but we’d probably love them even more if they didn’t have those sharp thorns. Well, scientists have found a way of growing thornless roses, and their findings could lead to easier-to-harvest crops.Continue ReadingCategory: Biolog… Continue reading Genetically engineered thornless roses pave the way for better crops
CRISPR gene-editing has improved the vision of patients with an inherited form of blindness, according to results of a Phase 1/2 clinical trial. The results not only give new hope to patients with the condition, but show that CRISPR could be put to use… Continue reading CRISPR restores some vision to blind patients in clinical trial
Medically, AI is helping us with everything from identifying abnormal heart rhythms before they happen to spotting skin cancer. But do we really need it to get involved with our genome? Protein-design company Profluent believes we do.Continue ReadingCa… Continue reading AI-designed gene editing tools successfully modify human DNA
By silencing the gene responsible for regulating ‘bad’ cholesterol without altering the primary DNA sequence, researchers have shown that it’s possible to use epigenetic editing to treat diseases rather than conventional DNA-breaking gene editing techn… Continue reading ‘Bad’ cholesterol gene silenced without altering the DNA sequence
For the first time, the FDA has approved two cell-based gene therapies for treating the rare but potentially fatal sickle cell disease. One is also the first approved therapy to utilize the CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing technology, signifying innovative adv… Continue reading FDA approves first cell-based gene therapies for sickle cell disease
A new study has, for the first time, settled the debate about how a mutated protein present in half of all human cancers drives tumor growth. The discovery will not only facilitate a rethink of the way cancer is treated but may lead to new and improved… Continue reading Rethinking cancer? Study reveals mutant protein’s role in tumor growth
CRISPR systems are powerful tools for genetic engineering, but they have their limitations. Now, scientists have discovered almost 200 new CRISPR systems in their native habitat of bacteria, and found that some can edit human cells even more precisely … Continue reading Algorithm identifies 188 new CRISPR gene-editing systems