All posts tagged "CRISPR-Cas9"
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1.1KHealth News‘World’s Smallest Data Recorder’ Made From Gut Bacteria
Scientists at Columbia University Medical Center made some molecular hacks to convert gut bacteria into the world’s tiniest data recorder. The team...
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1.0KHealth NewsGene-Editing In Cloned Embryos Shows Possibility Of Preventing Rare Diseases
Researchers in China are using new methods to fix genetic diseases in human embryos by cloning embryos with a mutation for a...
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1.1KHealth NewsScientists Successfully Edit Genetic Disease In Human Embryos
An international team of scientists completed a groundbreaking experiment on Wednesday, successfully eliminating a genetic disease by editing human embryos. The study...
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1.2KHealth NewsScientists Use CRISPR To Remove HIV In Mice
Researchers may have gotten one step closer to finding a cure for HIV, at least in mice, by using the gene-editing tool...
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1.5KHealth NewsScientists Make Human-Pig Embryos
Growing human organs inside animals has long been a dream of scientists who want to provide hearts, lungs and kidneys that are...
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1.6KHealth NewsChina And The USA In A Race To Apply Gene-Editing Technique On Cancer Patients
Chinese researchers have made scientific history at the first to have injected a person with genetically-modified cells, triggering what one doctors describes...
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2.1KScience NewsCRISPR-Cas9 Mushrooms Get Green Light From USDA
Genetically engineered (GE) mushrooms are set to be on the menu in the U.S. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced this month...
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2.0KScience NewsGenome Editing Technique Hailed As Science Magazine’s 2015 ‘Breakthrough Of The Year’
The revolutionary genome-editing technique CRISPR/Cas9 that allows genetic engineers to identify, cut and replace gene sequences with relative ease is Science Magazine‘s...
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2.5KHealth NewsFrancis Crick Scientists Request License To Genetically Modify Human Embryos
Stem cell researchers in London have requested permission to edit genes in human embryos in an attempt to not only enhance our...
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1.9KScience NewsMosquito Sex-Determining Gene Discovered By Virginia Tech Researchers
In a development which could lead to a drastic reduction in the population of dengue and yellow fever carrying Aedes aegypti mosquitoes,...
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2.5KScience NewsCrispr-Cas9: Revolutionary Genome Editing Technology Ignites Patent War
MIT, Harvard, and UC Berkeley have all entered into a lawsuit which will pit the esteemed educational institutions against one another in...
