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Gene therapy through skin transplant may help treat diabetes and obesity – Economic Times

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2017-08-05 NEWS

Economic Times

Gene therapy through skin transplant may help treat diabetes and obesity
Economic Times
NEW YORK: A new form of gene therapy administered through skin transplants can help improve treatments for Type-2 diabetes and obesity, researchers have claimed. Using CRISPR, researchers from the University of Chicago edited the skin stem cells from …
Skin Graft-based Gene Therapy Treats Diabetes in MiceThe Scientist
Gene therapy via skin could treat many diseases, even obesityScience Daily
CRISPR Gene Therapy via Skin Grafts Treats Obesity and Diabetes in MiceGenetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
Deccan Chronicle –ETHealthworld.com –ResearchGate (blog)
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2017-08-05 NEWS

Wall Street Pit

Breakthrough: CRISPR Technology ‘Fixes’ a Dangerous Mutation in Human Embryos
Wall Street Pit
CRISPR technology was conducted on human embryos to “correct” a mutated gene for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. There were improvements over previous experiments as the results of the recent study does not have “off-target” corrections and “mosaicism” …
CRISPR Edits Genome of Human EmbryosAlzforum
Gene Editing Could Stop Cancer, Diabetes and Bioterrorism: An Interview With CRISPR Scientist Jennifer DoudnaNewsweek
Following gene editing milestone, bioethics professor ventures into CRISPR minefieldMedCity News
New York Times –Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (press release) –Medical Daily –Nature
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2017-08-05 NEWS

ScienceAlert

CRISPR Skin Grafts Could Replace Insulin Shots For Diabetes
ScienceAlert
If you’re new to the CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) phenomenon, it’s a new and innovative way of editing specific genes in the body, using a biological copy and paste technique: it can do everything from cut out HIV …
Controversial CRISPR gene-editing could replace daily insulin injections in diabetes patientsDaily Mail
CRISPR-treated skin graft used to treat diabetes in miceNew Atlas
CRISPR Gene Therapy via Skin Grafts Treats Obesity and Diabetes in MiceGenetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
New Scientist –Diabetes.co.uk –Science Daily
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2017-08-05 NEWS

Daily Mail

CRISPR Skin Grafts Could Replace Insulin Shots For Diabetes
ScienceAlert
If you’re new to the CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) phenomenon, it’s a new and innovative way of editing specific genes in the body, using a biological copy and paste technique: it can do everything from cut out HIV …
Controversial CRISPR gene-editing could replace daily insulin injections in diabetes patientsDaily Mail
CRISPR-treated skin graft used to treat diabetes in miceNew Atlas
CRISPR Gene Therapy via Skin Grafts Treats Obesity and Diabetes in MiceGenetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
New Scientist –Diabetes.co.uk –Science Daily
all 33 news articles »
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2017-08-04 NEWS

WMBF

Surfside Beach woman anonymously donates stem cells to young woman with leukemia
WMBF
Winfield donates school supplies to kids in need, she helps people on some of the worst days of their lives as an EMT, and she recently donated blood stem cells to a young woman she doesn’t even know. Every three minutes someone is diagnosed with a …

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2017-08-04 NEWS

Science Magazine

CRISPR patent battle in Europe takes a ‘wild’ twist with surprising player
Science Magazine
The European Patent Office (EPO) on 27 July signaled that it intends to grant a patent to MilliporeSigma, which operates in the United States and Canada, for the use of CRISPR to splice genetic information into eukaryotic cells. Just such a “knock-in