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Food industry aims to win public trust of CRISPR gene-edited crops and animals – Genetic Literacy Project

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2017-10-23 NEWS

Genetic Literacy Project

Food industry aims to win public trust of CRISPR gene-edited crops and animals
Genetic Literacy Project
The technology is called Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, or CRISPR. It’s a technique that Alison Van Eenennaam, an animal genetics professor at University of California, Davis, says can de-activate a gene. Or, as she puts it

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2017-10-23 NEWS

Gene Therapy Ushers In a New Era in Cancer Treatment
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A new treatment for a type of childhood cancer is the first FDA-approved use of genetherapy. It provides an alternative for patients who have exhausted all other options. In this week’s Exploradio, WKSU’s Jeff St.Clair sits down with two cancer

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2017-10-23 NEWS

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Lancaster County family wants gene therapy approved for rare disease causing blindness
LancasterOnline
“While we are still learning about the long-term effects, recent studies in a host of rare disorders have been encouraging as a viable and long-lasting therapy, a possible game-changer for rare disease,” wrote Karlla W. Brigatti, the clinic’s genetic