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In a First, Gene Therapy Halts a Fatal Brain Disease – New York Times

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2017-10-05 NEWS

New York Times

In a First, Gene Therapy Halts a Fatal Brain Disease
New York Times
For the first time, doctors have used gene therapy to stave off a fatal degenerative brain disease, an achievement that some experts had thought impossible. The key to making the therapy work? One of the medicine’s greatest villains: HIV. The patients

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Broad Researchers Develop Pooled Genomic Perturbation Screening Method Using CRISPR
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“Specifically, we will screen pooled genomic perturbations (with barcoded CRISPR-Cas9 single guide RNAs) using microscopy to read out phenotypes and to identify perturbed genes at the single-cell level,” they wrote in the abstract. “Perturbed genes

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Arming Bodies with CRISPR to Fight Huntington’s Disease and ALS
MIT Technology Review
To do it, Gene Yeo, the company’s cofounder and a professor of cellular and molecular medicine at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, is repurposing CRISPR to go after a different target: RNA, the messenger molecule involved in …
Gene-editing technology repairs mutation for muscular dystrophyDigital Journal

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MIT Technology Review

Arming Bodies with CRISPR to Fight Huntington’s Disease and ALS
MIT Technology Review
To do it, Gene Yeo, the company’s cofounder and a professor of cellular and molecular medicine at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, is repurposing CRISPR to go after a different target: RNA, the messenger molecule involved in …

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