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With GMO Struggle In Mind, Food Industry Vying For Public Trust With CRISPR Discussion – HPPR

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2017-10-14 NEWS

HPPR

With GMO Struggle In Mind, Food Industry Vying For Public Trust With CRISPR Discussion
HPPR
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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2017-10-14 NEWS

BuzzFeed News

This Guy Says He’s The First Person To Attempt Editing His DNA With CRISPR
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This time, the biohacker claims he’s the first person trying to modify his own genome with the groundbreaking gene-editing technology known as CRISPR. And he’s providing the world with the means to do it, too, by posting a “DIY Human CRISPR Guide” …

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2017-10-14 NEWS

WTOP

‘Highly revolutionary’: Newly FDA-approved gene modification has promise in cancer treatment
WTOP
The CART cell treatment, developed by Novartis with multiple groups in the U.S. and internationally, is initially available to about 30 children’s hospitals. Here’s how it works: A patient donates blood that’s shipped to the cell factory that

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2017-10-14 NEWS

Science Daily

Reengineered immune system cells show early promise against HIV …
Science Daily
Improving on a previous attempt, scientists have developed a new strategy that could potentially be used to reengineer a patient’s own immune system cells to …

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