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Online game challenges players to design on/off switch for CRISPR – Stanford Medical Center Report

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2017-08-29 NEWS

Stanford Medical Center Report

Online game challenges players to design on/off switch for CRISPR
Stanford Medical Center Report
A gene editor as powerful as CRISPR could have unexpected effects inside living cells, so it makes sense to turn it off when it’s not needed. In addition, an on/off switch might be able to put CRISPR-influenced genes on a sort of timer, activating and …

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2017-08-29 NEWS

Stanford Medical Center Report

Online game challenges players to design on/off switch for CRISPR
Stanford Medical Center Report
A gene editor as powerful as CRISPR could have unexpected effects inside living cells, so it makes sense to turn it off when it’s not needed. In addition, an on/off switch might be able to put CRISPR-influenced genes on a sort of timer, activating and …

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2017-08-29 NEWS

Brainstorm Health: Hospitals and Harvey, VR Dementia Research, Stem Cell ‘Bad Actors’
Fortune
Hurricane Harvey has absolutely devastated Texas cities like Houston with powerful winds and torrential downpours. At least ten deaths have been reported so far (the full figure may become much higher once the flood recedes and authorities can check up …

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How your own stem cells could relieve your chronic pain
Good4Utah
Dr. Khan from Wasatch Pain Solutions gave us insight to Regenexx, the world’s most advanced stem cell and blood platelet procedures. On what makes Regenexx treatments better than any other, Dr. Khan explained that a network of doctors and researchers …

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2017-08-29 NEWS

Medical Design & Outsourcing

Cells can be programmed into living devices: Here’s how
Medical Design & Outsourcing
The synthetic biological circuits have so far been able to sense a handful of signals which gives them an incomplete idea of conditions in host cells. The circuits also also built using several moving parts like different molecules of DNAs, RNAs and