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If you could ‘design’ your own child, would you? – New Zealand Herald

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2017-08-01 NEWS

If you could ‘design’ your own child, would you?
New Zealand Herald
But supporters of synthetic biology talk up huge potential long-term benefits. We could, they claim, potentially edit genes and build new ones to eradicate all hereditary diseases. With genetic alterations, we might be able to withstand anthrax attacks

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2017-08-01 NEWS

If you could ‘design’ your own child, would you?
New Zealand Herald
But supporters of synthetic biology talk up huge potential long-term benefits. We could, they claim, potentially edit genes and build new ones to eradicate all hereditary diseases. With genetic alterations, we might be able to withstand anthrax attacks

and more »

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2017-08-01 NEWS

UC Berkeley

How Powerful is CRISPR?
Newswise (press release)
Newswise — “Good morning, doctor, I am here for my gene editing appointment.” In the future, could this be a greeting heard in physician offices around the world? With the introduction of CRISPR technology, genetic material can now be more easily and …
Aug. 16-17 CRISPRcon to focus on societal issues of gene editingUC Berkeley

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2017-08-01 NEWS

The San Diego Union-Tribune

Time for public debate, says gene editing star Jennifer Doudna
The San Diego Union-Tribune
“It’s important to for people to appreciate that this is a powerful technology that has the potential to do a lot of good, to solve real world problems not only in clinical medicine but also in agriculture and synthetic biology,” Doudna said. Doudna

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2017-08-01 NEWS

MIMS General News (Hong Kong) (registration) (blog)

American scientists use CRISPR to modify human embryos
MIMS General News (Hong Kong) (registration) (blog)
Led by embryologist, Dr Shoukhrat Mitalipov – a researcher at the university – the team used the gene-editing technique CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) to introduce gene-editing chemicals to single-cell embryos.

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2017-07-31 NEWS

CBS Philly

Teen Battles Brain Cancer, Raises Money For Treatment
CBS Philly
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — This is a mission to raise money specifically for immunotherapy research. It’s been called a game changer, the next frontier in treating, even curing cancer. A New Jersey teenager is hoping a new immunotherapy works for him and …